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Rating:  - Wonderful!
A perfect final film from Louis Malle. Shades of Renoir & Bergman, this is in its structure an almost a classic farce but it also contains a steak of absurdist Bunuelian irony (Carrière was the scriptwriter of some of Bunuel's best films). Best of all are the wonderful performances so beautifully orchestrated by the most human of directors.
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Rating:  - April showers bring May flowers (blooming all sorts of things!)
The English always called May "the lusty month" when every little whim whether wholesome or unwholesome comes into bloom ;the cold cabin fever of Winter is cast off and all senses are awakened......AND WATCH OUT!....anything goes!From France,Louis Malle has scripted a clever social satire about the upper-class Vieuzac family whose "May fever" turns into full blown upheaval when the family returns to their ancestral home when the matriarh of the family dies.The clan is indeed a most mixed bag of ... Read More
Rating: - Sharp comedy
Louis Malle's superb social satire set during the time of the Paris student demonstrations in 1968. A large family gathers at the rural estate of the just-deceased matriarch. They are a varied bunch, but most of them are motivated by one thing: greed. Their only thought is how to divide up the property. But 1968 is a chaotic time, not only politically, but sexually too: the sexual revolution has begun and Malle pokes a great deal of fun at it through the blossoming horniness of these people. ... Read More
Rating: - midsummer nights social comedy
With a hint of Renoir's Rules of the Game as well as Chekov's Cherry Orchard, and everything in between this town and country comedy begins with the tragedy of the family matriarchs death. The extended family gathers for a weekend funeral but the ceremony is delayed because of a workers strike which has brought life to a standstill. In the stillness of the country the weekend turns into an extended retreat that becomes more and more bohemian and brazen as the country air and contact with the soil has ... Read More
Rating:  - Connected to Place
Urban, suburban, rootless, nomadic: if these words describe your experience, this film will leave you cold. Agrarian, transplanted, uprooted, trying to re-connect to a rich family tradition? This film is for you. The plight of a man who is part of the land, and whose land is part of him, really moved me. This film asks, "What do you value, and why?" It affirms the worth of connectedness, continuity, and deep roots, while challenging our cultural idols of speed, change, and the new.
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