Ma vie sexuelle (Paul Dedalus' Journey) (1996)
(Comment je me suis disputé...("ma vie sexuelle"))
Country: FR
Technical: col 180m
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Marianne Denicourt
Synopsis:
The troubled amours of a philosophy professor as he struggles to finish his thesis and come to terms with being rejected by an old college friend.
Review:
What with the titular reference to Ulysses and the labyrinthine structure of the narrative, whose time frame is never quite clear, this typically French intellectual's piece manages to retain viewer attention over its extraordinary running time while nothing in particular happens, even at the end. The secret is that it is very well acted by a new generation of players, and scintillatingly written, with an apparently genuine involvement in the character's solipsistic torturings over the need to break with his longterm girlfriend and resign as a teacher at the college. Shot in an elegant, close-up manner which distances it from its Rohmerian borrowings the film also has a disembodied narrator who keeps us on track intermittently in that breathless, convoluted style familiar to Truffaut aficionados.
(Comment je me suis disputé...("ma vie sexuelle"))
Country: FR
Technical: col 180m
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Marianne Denicourt
Synopsis:
The troubled amours of a philosophy professor as he struggles to finish his thesis and come to terms with being rejected by an old college friend.
Review:
What with the titular reference to Ulysses and the labyrinthine structure of the narrative, whose time frame is never quite clear, this typically French intellectual's piece manages to retain viewer attention over its extraordinary running time while nothing in particular happens, even at the end. The secret is that it is very well acted by a new generation of players, and scintillatingly written, with an apparently genuine involvement in the character's solipsistic torturings over the need to break with his longterm girlfriend and resign as a teacher at the college. Shot in an elegant, close-up manner which distances it from its Rohmerian borrowings the film also has a disembodied narrator who keeps us on track intermittently in that breathless, convoluted style familiar to Truffaut aficionados.
(Comment je me suis disputé...("ma vie sexuelle"))
Country: FR
Technical: col 180m
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Marianne Denicourt
Synopsis:
The troubled amours of a philosophy professor as he struggles to finish his thesis and come to terms with being rejected by an old college friend.
Review:
What with the titular reference to Ulysses and the labyrinthine structure of the narrative, whose time frame is never quite clear, this typically French intellectual's piece manages to retain viewer attention over its extraordinary running time while nothing in particular happens, even at the end. The secret is that it is very well acted by a new generation of players, and scintillatingly written, with an apparently genuine involvement in the character's solipsistic torturings over the need to break with his longterm girlfriend and resign as a teacher at the college. Shot in an elegant, close-up manner which distances it from its Rohmerian borrowings the film also has a disembodied narrator who keeps us on track intermittently in that breathless, convoluted style familiar to Truffaut aficionados.