Café de Flore (2011)
Country: CAN/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent, Evelyne Brochu
Synopsis:
An LP provides a link between two stories of transcendental love, one in Paris in 1969, between a mother and her Down's syndrome son, the other in Montréal in 2011, concerning a wife whose husband leaves her for another woman.
Review:
A story told through oblique shreds of narrative, spread out over time, leaving the audience to piece together the identities and significance of the key characters. Gradually, through the accumulation of repeated images and ideas, and with the essential (never more so) background music on the soundtrack, we become aware of a dreadful determinism to events. The religious underpinnings range from Christianity to Buddhism but are not emphasised; instead the characters occupy a very physical space, underlined by the handheld camera. A beautiful film, which will either disturb or irritate, depending on your view of such things.
Country: CAN/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent, Evelyne Brochu
Synopsis:
An LP provides a link between two stories of transcendental love, one in Paris in 1969, between a mother and her Down's syndrome son, the other in Montréal in 2011, concerning a wife whose husband leaves her for another woman.
Review:
A story told through oblique shreds of narrative, spread out over time, leaving the audience to piece together the identities and significance of the key characters. Gradually, through the accumulation of repeated images and ideas, and with the essential (never more so) background music on the soundtrack, we become aware of a dreadful determinism to events. The religious underpinnings range from Christianity to Buddhism but are not emphasised; instead the characters occupy a very physical space, underlined by the handheld camera. A beautiful film, which will either disturb or irritate, depending on your view of such things.
Country: CAN/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent, Evelyne Brochu
Synopsis:
An LP provides a link between two stories of transcendental love, one in Paris in 1969, between a mother and her Down's syndrome son, the other in Montréal in 2011, concerning a wife whose husband leaves her for another woman.
Review:
A story told through oblique shreds of narrative, spread out over time, leaving the audience to piece together the identities and significance of the key characters. Gradually, through the accumulation of repeated images and ideas, and with the essential (never more so) background music on the soundtrack, we become aware of a dreadful determinism to events. The religious underpinnings range from Christianity to Buddhism but are not emphasised; instead the characters occupy a very physical space, underlined by the handheld camera. A beautiful film, which will either disturb or irritate, depending on your view of such things.