Alice and the Mayor (2019)
(Alice et le maire)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 103m
Director: Nicolas Pariser
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Anaïs Demoustier, Nora Hamzawi
Synopsis:
A philosophy graduate with some letters after her name gets employed by Lyon City Hall to help the Mayor formulate ideas for the future direction of policy, though in reality he is at a crisis point in his career.
Review:
If Rohmer had written about the world of politics it might have sounded like this, or is that just because of Luchini's presence here? What is touching are the moments in which these two souls, each tormented by self-doubt, come close to understanding one another, like Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (q.v.). What is audacious is the intellectual rigour of the screenplay, which for once addresses some cogent political realities of our times without trivialising them. However, for a film with a certain number of loose ends to tie up one might have expected more from an epilogue than to raise still further questions. In the end neither character is sufficiently developed for substantial drama to emerge from this workshop of ideas.
(Alice et le maire)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 103m
Director: Nicolas Pariser
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Anaïs Demoustier, Nora Hamzawi
Synopsis:
A philosophy graduate with some letters after her name gets employed by Lyon City Hall to help the Mayor formulate ideas for the future direction of policy, though in reality he is at a crisis point in his career.
Review:
If Rohmer had written about the world of politics it might have sounded like this, or is that just because of Luchini's presence here? What is touching are the moments in which these two souls, each tormented by self-doubt, come close to understanding one another, like Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (q.v.). What is audacious is the intellectual rigour of the screenplay, which for once addresses some cogent political realities of our times without trivialising them. However, for a film with a certain number of loose ends to tie up one might have expected more from an epilogue than to raise still further questions. In the end neither character is sufficiently developed for substantial drama to emerge from this workshop of ideas.
(Alice et le maire)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 103m
Director: Nicolas Pariser
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Anaïs Demoustier, Nora Hamzawi
Synopsis:
A philosophy graduate with some letters after her name gets employed by Lyon City Hall to help the Mayor formulate ideas for the future direction of policy, though in reality he is at a crisis point in his career.
Review:
If Rohmer had written about the world of politics it might have sounded like this, or is that just because of Luchini's presence here? What is touching are the moments in which these two souls, each tormented by self-doubt, come close to understanding one another, like Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (q.v.). What is audacious is the intellectual rigour of the screenplay, which for once addresses some cogent political realities of our times without trivialising them. However, for a film with a certain number of loose ends to tie up one might have expected more from an epilogue than to raise still further questions. In the end neither character is sufficiently developed for substantial drama to emerge from this workshop of ideas.