Andre Techine, C or D?

Thoughts here.

Did you think the Michel Blanc character ever actually had sex with Manu? I thought he was just willing to fund him for the proximity.

I should see it again, the distributor stupidly sent out screeners thst were SQUASHED from widescreen for review last winter -- nuts.

And I still found Wild Reeds a lil too dewy around the edges.

It's difficult to say. They had no sexual chemistry, which is probably the point.

The dewiness in WR is in the young intellectual/homo, but Techine undercuts it with the surly Algerian and the oxen charm of the future Come Undone hunk.

Elodie Bouchez has been on "Alias"!

Girl on the Train not at The Witnesses' level, but pretty good.

I saw The Witnesses. It WAS kind of middlebrow, tbh

in what sense?

I don't know... somewhat didactic melodrama? I didn't hate it, I just hated some things about it.

Hm. I find him the very opposite of didactic. In his latest film I wished he'd pressed harder actually...

New one (well, last year) opening soon in US, with Bunuel muse/Bond girl Carole Bouquet in lead. Euro reviews pretty divisive, seeing tonight.

Unforgivable out on Netflix today.

His new one is a bit strange-- terrible English title, In the Name of My Daughter -- a character study sort of disguised as a noirish casino thriller. Based on a bizarre real-life case, it's cut faster than anything I've ever seen from him; the young actress Adele Haenel steals it, she's this year's "It" Femme apparently.

It ends up in court and old-age makeup, alas, but you also get to see Catherine Deneuve go from Ethel Barrymore-regal to singing "Stand by Me."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9jHGbGMQzY

Drat. The screening at MIFF is standby only tomorrow afternoon.

Am watching tonight or tomorrow morning.

OTM on the editing, which is noticeable immediately; but except for too soon a cut from the time Agnes demands money to open her store to actually opening it each scene gets its due weight.

You're right about the expendable last quarter.

new teenboy hate-at-first-sight romance, co-written by the Girlhood auteur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOSPninRQwI

Thomas is such a great character in this. His run in the mountains at the end is a kind of liberation, I guess, but even his earlier snowy trudges felt triumphant to me.

Film of the year.

My favorite film of 2016.

I've been watching his films starting at the beginning. Wild Reeds is maybe the best one so far I think but a lot them are good. I most recently saw Changing Times, which is interesting in its extreme close-ups, ever-moving camera, fast dialogue, multiple storylines and seemingly disorganized representation of events. I haven't gotten to any of the ones since 2004 yet

I really liked The Witnesses

like BPM (Beats Per Minute) it is easy for me to relate to, it is a movie about events that defined my life