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Acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas follows up on the international success of Fin Août, Début Septembre and Irma Vep with this sweeping adaptation of the sprawling three-volume tome by Jacques Chardonne. Set in three chapters spanning from the beginning of the 1900s to after WWI, the first section takes place in the fictional village of Barbazac, located in the Cognac region. Protestant pastor Jean Barnery (Charles Berling) learns of his wife Nathalie’s (Isabelle Huppert) infidelity from the village grapevine and sends his daughter away. At the same time, 20-year-old Pauline (Emmanuelle Beart) returns to the village after the death of her father. Pauline and Jean are almost immediately attracted to each other when they first meet at a ball. Soon Jean installs Nathalie and their daughter in an apartment, files for divorce, and resigns as minister. The second chapter opens with Pauline visiting Jean, who is bedridden in a Parisian hotel from tuberculosis. Upon his recovery, they marry and live for a spell in Switzerland, until Jean’s family entreat him to return to Limoges and take over the floundering family porcelain business. The final chapter opens with bombs of WWI: Jean is sent to the front, while Pauline works as a nurse. When the war finally draws to a close, Jean struggles to keep the business afloat. He raises the ire of his workers and stockholders alike by freezing wages and slashing dividends, but his fastidious attention to detail soon makes his company the finest producer of porcelain in Europe. Yet as the economic climate of the continent slowly worsens, so does his business — and his health. This film was first screened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. — Jonathan Crow

This languid, sprawling period drama represents a change of pace from director Olivier Assayas’ usual, ultra-contemporary subject matter, but retains the auteur’s emphasis on long-suffering romance presented in a uniquely modern, resolutely unsentimental style. For much of its first hour, Destinees shunts from character to character before finding its momentum with the central relationship between priggish heir Jean (Charles Berling) and his luminous new bride, Pauline (Emmanuelle Béart). While the passion quotient is understandably low, Béart manages to suggest a reserve of hope and understanding; frustrated by her husband at every turn, she remains true to him, even as Assayas’ interpretation slyly insinuates that Jean is not worth her time. In this respect, Assayas’ strengths as a “woman’s director” work against Destinees’ complex rise-and-fall-of-the-family-business subplot, which never engages on an emotional level. Much like Jean himself, the film seems to peter out in its last third, but throughout, Assayas seems determined to keep the material relevant, incorporating raw bursts of emotion and even some cinéma vérité stylization into what is by and large a sumptuous costume drama. — Michael Hastings

Olivier Assayas - (2000) Sentimental Destinies.mkv

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The post Olivier Assayas – Les destinées sentimentales AKA Sentimental Destinies (2000) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Serge Toubiana followed Isabelle Huppert and her lifestyle for one year. With her, we reflect on the “album” of her life. The images flow: films of her childhood, the importantmoments in her career, intrpersed with interviews, impressing rehersals, scenes from films, and ordinary walks, in the center of a crowd that does not recognise her. We are given an insider’s view of a remakable actress, a discreet woman, who, in this portrait, gives us a glimpse at her emotions, her vocation, and her life.

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The post Serge Toubiana – Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer AKA Isabelle Huppert, playing life (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
A French woman drinks makgeolli in Korea after losing her means of income, then teaches French to two Korean women.

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The post Sang-soo Hong – Yeohaengjaui Pilyo AKA A Traveler’s Needs (2024) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Lucie, a police officer, is fond of her new neighbors, a young couple. Soon she discovers that Yann, the father, has a heavy criminal record. Lucie has a moral conflict between her professionalism and her desire to help this family.

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The post André Téchiné – Les gens d’à côté AKA My New Friends (2024) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Two women from very different worlds bond over an unlikely connection — both of them have a husband serving time in the same prison — in Visiting Hours, a study of class and economic disparity that avoids certain narrative familiarities while succumbing to others. Veteran French director Patricia Mazuy reunites with her The Kings Daughters (2000) star Isabelle Huppert, who plays a bourgeois wife who takes an interest in Hafsia Herzi’s working-class dry-cleaner, although the reason for her fascination is, intriguingly, never explicitly laid out. The two characters become friends, although both women’s ulterior motives give this uneven but compelling film its tense energy.

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Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene’s older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in – and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.

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The post Joachim Trier – Louder Than Bombs (2015) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.

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The post Claude Chabrol – Violette Nozière (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.