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Director:
Julie Lopes-Curval
Screenplay: Julie Lopes-Curval, with the collaboration
of François Favrat
Cast:
Rose: Bulle Ogier
Marie: Hélène Fillières
Anne: Ludmila Mikaël
Paul: Jonathan Zaccaï
Albert: Patrick Lizana
Odette: Liliane Rovere
Awards: Golden Camera, Cannes Film Festival (2002)
Running time: 88 minutes
Year of production: France - 2002
Rating: Not rated (brief nudity and sexual content)
Gauge: 35mm, DVD (color)
Distributor: First Run Features
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“Compare
it to what passes for sophisticated filmmaking in this
country and the movie becomes a living instrument of cinematic
humanism: lovingly intent on observing, not judging; concerned
with sympathy, not control; accepting the inevitable ambiguities,
not denying them.” Michael Atkinson | Village Voice
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Stretching
over four seasons, Julie Lopes-Curval’s first film captures
the lives of locals and summer visitors at a northern French
seaside resort. Mary, a sad beauty, spends her days with Paul,
a grocer in the winter and a lifeguard in the summer. Mary
works at the local pebble factory, the town’s primary
industry, sorting a never-ending supply of pebbles. The young
couple tries to solve family tensions by caring for Paul’s
depressed mother. Rose, who wastes her meager pension on gambling.
When Albert, the young factory director, is fired, Mary finds
someone with whom to share her loneliness. The paintings of
Edward Hopper are an obvious reference for this French provincial
drama, where the vast landscape adds to the somber mood.
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