Beau temps mais orageux en fin de journée (1986)
Country: FR
Technical: col 85m
Director: Gérard Frot-Coutaz
Cast: Claude Piéplu, Micheline Presle, Xavier Deluc, Tonie Marshall
Synopsis:
A retired couple are taken unawares by their son and prospective daughter-in-law who drop in for dinner, and the rockiness of their relationship over the course of the day is seen as an epitome of the marriage to come.
Review:
Well-written actor's piece, pretty tight structurally but technically ragged as film-making. The metaphor by which the chicken, rescued and washed twice from the bin, becomes the central marital relationship, endlessly scrapped and made up again, is singularly blunt and sobering. The meteorological title, referring also to the average outlook for a marriage, reaches its pay-off when the father slips and 'breaks' the chicken on a thunder clap; the fact that it is destined for the cat means we laugh at it is as a pratfall before acknowledging it as a tragedy.
Country: FR
Technical: col 85m
Director: Gérard Frot-Coutaz
Cast: Claude Piéplu, Micheline Presle, Xavier Deluc, Tonie Marshall
Synopsis:
A retired couple are taken unawares by their son and prospective daughter-in-law who drop in for dinner, and the rockiness of their relationship over the course of the day is seen as an epitome of the marriage to come.
Review:
Well-written actor's piece, pretty tight structurally but technically ragged as film-making. The metaphor by which the chicken, rescued and washed twice from the bin, becomes the central marital relationship, endlessly scrapped and made up again, is singularly blunt and sobering. The meteorological title, referring also to the average outlook for a marriage, reaches its pay-off when the father slips and 'breaks' the chicken on a thunder clap; the fact that it is destined for the cat means we laugh at it is as a pratfall before acknowledging it as a tragedy.
Country: FR
Technical: col 85m
Director: Gérard Frot-Coutaz
Cast: Claude Piéplu, Micheline Presle, Xavier Deluc, Tonie Marshall
Synopsis:
A retired couple are taken unawares by their son and prospective daughter-in-law who drop in for dinner, and the rockiness of their relationship over the course of the day is seen as an epitome of the marriage to come.
Review:
Well-written actor's piece, pretty tight structurally but technically ragged as film-making. The metaphor by which the chicken, rescued and washed twice from the bin, becomes the central marital relationship, endlessly scrapped and made up again, is singularly blunt and sobering. The meteorological title, referring also to the average outlook for a marriage, reaches its pay-off when the father slips and 'breaks' the chicken on a thunder clap; the fact that it is destined for the cat means we laugh at it is as a pratfall before acknowledging it as a tragedy.