LA NOUVELLE EVE
THE NEW EVE

Director: Catherine Corsini
Screenplay: Catherine Corsini and Marc Syrigas.

Cast: Karin Viard, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Catherine Frot, Sergi Lopez.

Running time: 94'
Year of production: 1999
Rating: Not rated
Gauge: 35mm (color)

Distributor: Sceneries Entertainment


“Corsini is interested not in the physical comedy that makes Bringing Up Baby such a joy but rather in the mutual attraction of a woman and a man with diametrically opposite personalities. She’s a hysteric; he’s an anal retentive. They irritate and infuriate each other, but they’re also never so alive as when they’re together.” Amy Taubin, The Village Voice.

Thirty-something Camille (Viard, who recently won a César for her performance in Haut les coeurs) is an accident who keeps happening. At parties, she gets drunk and stoned and throws up on the hostess' bed. Desperate to be loved, but at the same time demanding to have everything her own way, Camille threatens to alienate everyone in her life. Careering toward a nervous breakdown, she collides one day with a passing stranger on the street and drops her bag of newly-bought antidepressants. He kindly helps her to pick them up and she falls instantly, foolishly, in love. But Alexis (Rajot) is the epitome of seriousness and stability - a doctor and a Socialist Party Organizer, married with two kids - and not at all interested in jumping headlong into an affair with a selfish and neurotic woman. Camille is not to be stopped. She insinuates herself into his life by joining the Socialist Party and even by joining his family, as "Aunt Camille" to his kids. Finally he relents. But Camille will never be entirely satisfied until she wrests him away from his wife and possesses him totally, on her own terms. A comic portrait of a deeply troubled woman who won’t take no for an answer and refuses to learn from experience! A romantic comedy for the dysfunctional age.

 
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