Kung-fu master! (1988)
(Kung-Fu Master!)
Country: FR
Technical: col/1.66:1 80m
Director: Agnès Varda
Cast: Jane Birkin, Mathieu Demy, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Synopsis:
A lonely single mother falls in love with one of her daughter's classmates, an adept of the titular video game.
Review:
As if to take the sting off it, this is very much a family affair, with mother directing her own son as well as various members of the Birkin family. Only the French could at once treat so taboo a subject without opprobrium and yet do it so humanely. The performances and direction place sentiment to the fore, while remaining stoically and cynically aloof from a self-indulgent wallow, not least in the final scene. Varda's camera, which accomplishes some impressive feats of mobility, also captures action of Nouvelle Vague-like inconsequentiality.
(Kung-Fu Master!)
Country: FR
Technical: col/1.66:1 80m
Director: Agnès Varda
Cast: Jane Birkin, Mathieu Demy, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Synopsis:
A lonely single mother falls in love with one of her daughter's classmates, an adept of the titular video game.
Review:
As if to take the sting off it, this is very much a family affair, with mother directing her own son as well as various members of the Birkin family. Only the French could at once treat so taboo a subject without opprobrium and yet do it so humanely. The performances and direction place sentiment to the fore, while remaining stoically and cynically aloof from a self-indulgent wallow, not least in the final scene. Varda's camera, which accomplishes some impressive feats of mobility, also captures action of Nouvelle Vague-like inconsequentiality.
(Kung-Fu Master!)
Country: FR
Technical: col/1.66:1 80m
Director: Agnès Varda
Cast: Jane Birkin, Mathieu Demy, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Synopsis:
A lonely single mother falls in love with one of her daughter's classmates, an adept of the titular video game.
Review:
As if to take the sting off it, this is very much a family affair, with mother directing her own son as well as various members of the Birkin family. Only the French could at once treat so taboo a subject without opprobrium and yet do it so humanely. The performances and direction place sentiment to the fore, while remaining stoically and cynically aloof from a self-indulgent wallow, not least in the final scene. Varda's camera, which accomplishes some impressive feats of mobility, also captures action of Nouvelle Vague-like inconsequentiality.