L'invitation (1973)
Country: SW/FR
Technical: col 100m
Director: Claude Goretta
Cast: Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean Champion, Michel Robin
Synopsis:
An office employee invites his colleagues up for a housewarming party in the country, but good intentions are vitiated by the tactlessness and vulgarity of the guests.
Review:
One of the director's early efforts, with Robin excellent as the mild-mannered, flower-loving host, is almost Buñuelian in its fragmented critique and bizarre, half-explained detail. As in La Dentellière, the spiritual purity of a self-effacing character is subtly adumbrated and revealed to be crushed when it tries to meet society halfway. Here each member of the cast tucks into his/her role, and the results are more theatrically entertaining than in the later film.
Country: SW/FR
Technical: col 100m
Director: Claude Goretta
Cast: Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean Champion, Michel Robin
Synopsis:
An office employee invites his colleagues up for a housewarming party in the country, but good intentions are vitiated by the tactlessness and vulgarity of the guests.
Review:
One of the director's early efforts, with Robin excellent as the mild-mannered, flower-loving host, is almost Buñuelian in its fragmented critique and bizarre, half-explained detail. As in La Dentellière, the spiritual purity of a self-effacing character is subtly adumbrated and revealed to be crushed when it tries to meet society halfway. Here each member of the cast tucks into his/her role, and the results are more theatrically entertaining than in the later film.
Country: SW/FR
Technical: col 100m
Director: Claude Goretta
Cast: Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean Champion, Michel Robin
Synopsis:
An office employee invites his colleagues up for a housewarming party in the country, but good intentions are vitiated by the tactlessness and vulgarity of the guests.
Review:
One of the director's early efforts, with Robin excellent as the mild-mannered, flower-loving host, is almost Buñuelian in its fragmented critique and bizarre, half-explained detail. As in La Dentellière, the spiritual purity of a self-effacing character is subtly adumbrated and revealed to be crushed when it tries to meet society halfway. Here each member of the cast tucks into his/her role, and the results are more theatrically entertaining than in the later film.