Thursday, May 19, 2011
YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN
Today's film was the French director Agnès Jaoui's
Parlez-moi de la pluie / Let It Rain (2008)
Actually "tell me about the rain" in the original title.
The reviewer says that this is like Woody Allen without the laughs. Well, there are some laughs. But I see the point.
A feminist writer (Ms. Jaoui) goes home to her provincial area to run for the legislature. I don't know what office as we never really see that aspect of things. What she gets is family drama. The sister, the housekeeper, the housekeeper's son and his friend who want to make a documentary of the feminist and a few others.
Everything gets enmeshed.
This is a typical French film in respect to its pace and development. They do not lay it in your lap. You have to listen and think. Novel for these cinematic days in the US film world.
This pays off very well. Questions are raised, answers are given, fantasies are explored, reality is plumbed.
Very nice.
I enjoyed it very much.
I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.
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