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Director: Alain Resnais
Screenplay: Alan Ayckbourn, Jean-Michel Ribes
Cast:
Charlotte: Sabine Azéma
Dan: Lambert Wilson
Thierry: André Dussolier
Lionel: Pierre Arditi
Nicole : Laura Montante
Gaelle : Isabelle Carré
Awards:
Silver Lion Award and Pasinetti Award Prize (Laura Montante),
Venice Film Festival (2006)
Running time: 120’
Production: France, Italie, 2006
Rating: Not Rated
Gauge: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD
Genre: Drame
Distributor: IFC FILMS
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"Working
within small studio spaces, Resnais, with ace director
of photography Eric Gautier, emphasizes the theatrical
origins of the piece, not only in the acting but lighting
(on the strong side, adding to a flat feeling) and general
staging. Gorgeous snowflakes are used in all but one scene
change; a touching shot toward the end with Charlotte
and Lionel clasping hands in the snow forms the most moving
image".
Jay Weissberg, Variety. |
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A real estate
agent, Thierry, lives with his younger sister Gaelle and searches
desperately for love. Dan and Nicole are looking for a bigger
apartment anticipating, maybe, a new arrival. Lionel is a
barman who tries to mend his relationship with his sick (and
nonetheless extremely mean) father. Charlotte has discovered
Jesus. Everyone is trying to maintain his/her relationship
without much success. Dan breaks up with Nicole and goes off
with Gaelle; Charlotte becomes a night nurse to Lionel’s
father and meets Thierry who falls in love with her. Snow
is a leading element in the film. Representative of the director’s
soft and subtle style, it is also to be considered as a blank,
an empty space that insidiously confines each character to
loneliness. As film critic André Bazin once explained,
"the snow under its immaculate whiteness conceals heavy
ambiguities, subtle metaphors."
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