Le souffle (2001)
(Deep Breath)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 77m
Director: Damien Odoul
Cast: Pierre-Louis Bonnetblanc, Dominique Chevalier, Maxime Dalbrut
Synopsis:
In the Limousin a farmer prepares for a 'méchoui' (spit-roast lamb) at which he promises to let his adolescent nephew drink 'with the men'.
Review:
Succinctly capturing by turns the primitive drudgery of daily rural life in France, the cyclical inevitability of macho drink culture, as well as the beauty of the countryside, this powerful first film concludes with a grim equation of killing with coming to manhood (the wolf in the dream noses the crawling, mud-caked boy to a standing position).
(Deep Breath)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 77m
Director: Damien Odoul
Cast: Pierre-Louis Bonnetblanc, Dominique Chevalier, Maxime Dalbrut
Synopsis:
In the Limousin a farmer prepares for a 'méchoui' (spit-roast lamb) at which he promises to let his adolescent nephew drink 'with the men'.
Review:
Succinctly capturing by turns the primitive drudgery of daily rural life in France, the cyclical inevitability of macho drink culture, as well as the beauty of the countryside, this powerful first film concludes with a grim equation of killing with coming to manhood (the wolf in the dream noses the crawling, mud-caked boy to a standing position).
(Deep Breath)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 77m
Director: Damien Odoul
Cast: Pierre-Louis Bonnetblanc, Dominique Chevalier, Maxime Dalbrut
Synopsis:
In the Limousin a farmer prepares for a 'méchoui' (spit-roast lamb) at which he promises to let his adolescent nephew drink 'with the men'.
Review:
Succinctly capturing by turns the primitive drudgery of daily rural life in France, the cyclical inevitability of macho drink culture, as well as the beauty of the countryside, this powerful first film concludes with a grim equation of killing with coming to manhood (the wolf in the dream noses the crawling, mud-caked boy to a standing position).