Tuesday, August 26, 2008
YOUNG AND FLEXIBLE
Today's film was
Les Roseaux Sauvages / Wild Reeds (1997)
Four young french people learn the fable of the mighty oak versus the slender reed. The proud oak topples in the wind. The reed bends and survives.
All this takes place against the background of the Algerian War.
There is a full deck of characters. One gay boy with a best girl friend who has no desires and a crush on another male classmate. The fourth kid is an repatriate from Algeria. Bitter and lonely. Put them together. Voila!
I got it because I read about it. No one gets what they want. Typical French ending. And that is not a spoiler.
It won lots of prizes.
It is pretty good. I will give it a good average 3 out of Netflix5. If I could have seen it before I ordered it I wouldn't have ordered it. That is not a condemnation. It is just a way to describe the average.
The excellent, we want to see again.
