A TOUT DE SUITE
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Director:
Benoit Jacquot
Screenplay: Benoit Jacquot, based on the autobiography
of Elisabeth Fanger
Cast:
Lili: Isild Le Besco
Bada: Ouassini Embarek
Alain: Nicolas Duvauchelle
Joelle: Laurence Cordier
Running time: 95'
Year of production: France - 2004
Rating: Not rated
Gauge: 35mm(B&W)
Distributor: The Cinema Guild
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“The
black and white recalls the authentic agitation of the
first films of the ‘Nouvelle Vague’, and the
lust for life found in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless…
“ Jean-Luc Douin, Le Monde |
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Lili is an
impulsive, free-spirited, nineteen-year-old living in a Bourgeois
household with her father in 1970s Paris. When she meets a
mysterious young Moroccan man by the name of Bada, she falls
instantly in love with him. She soon learns he was involved
in a botched bank robbery, and without hesitation she leaves
her life behind to flee Paris with him, his accomplice Alain,
and Alain’s girlfriend. The four embark on a dizzying
cross-continent escape through Spain, Morocco and Greece.
As the police draw closer, and the identity of the two men
is made public, the tensions within the group rise. One day,
upon arriving to Greece, Lili is interrogated by the border
police. After being released, she runs to meet her friends
but they drive off without her. Lili, penniless, abandoned
and in shock, finds her way through Athens hoping that Bada
will come back for her as he always promised he would. Bada,
however, never comes back. Months later, Lili returns to Paris
and tries to pick up the pieces of her life, but she is never
quite able to recover. Oppressing and liberating at the same,
A tout de suite is a captivating road-movie beautifully shot
in black and white.
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