Notre Histoire (1984)
(Our Story)
Country: FR
Technical: col 111m
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Alain Delon, Nathalie Baye, Michel Galabru
Synopsis:
Various characters tell stories which may not be true ('C'est l'histoire de...') and indeed the whole thing turns out to be a dream.
Review:
Actually more than one possible story, as Blier dovetails various outcomes from an initial situation. This is further evidence of the writer-director's fondness for Buñuel, only the play between reality and fiction is at its more self-conscious here and the ending, which reveals the true roles of the actors in the story, does not pay off as it does in Deville's Le Paltoquet; in that film the effect had been Brechtian detachment all along, the close a satisfying solution to a puzzle, whereas here all depends on the performers' ability to strike the write note (Delon affects us too little, though he does try, Baye too much).
(Our Story)
Country: FR
Technical: col 111m
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Alain Delon, Nathalie Baye, Michel Galabru
Synopsis:
Various characters tell stories which may not be true ('C'est l'histoire de...') and indeed the whole thing turns out to be a dream.
Review:
Actually more than one possible story, as Blier dovetails various outcomes from an initial situation. This is further evidence of the writer-director's fondness for Buñuel, only the play between reality and fiction is at its more self-conscious here and the ending, which reveals the true roles of the actors in the story, does not pay off as it does in Deville's Le Paltoquet; in that film the effect had been Brechtian detachment all along, the close a satisfying solution to a puzzle, whereas here all depends on the performers' ability to strike the write note (Delon affects us too little, though he does try, Baye too much).
(Our Story)
Country: FR
Technical: col 111m
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Alain Delon, Nathalie Baye, Michel Galabru
Synopsis:
Various characters tell stories which may not be true ('C'est l'histoire de...') and indeed the whole thing turns out to be a dream.
Review:
Actually more than one possible story, as Blier dovetails various outcomes from an initial situation. This is further evidence of the writer-director's fondness for Buñuel, only the play between reality and fiction is at its more self-conscious here and the ending, which reveals the true roles of the actors in the story, does not pay off as it does in Deville's Le Paltoquet; in that film the effect had been Brechtian detachment all along, the close a satisfying solution to a puzzle, whereas here all depends on the performers' ability to strike the write note (Delon affects us too little, though he does try, Baye too much).