The Last Mitterand (2004)
(Le promeneur du Champ de Mars)
Country: FR/SW
Technical: col 116m
Director: Robert Guédiguian
Cast: Michel Bouquet, Jalil Lespert, Philippe Fretun, Anne Cantineau
Synopsis:
A writer shadows the ailing president for months, collecting his memoirs and secretly intent on unravelling the inconsistencies surrounding accounts of his collaboration during the Second World War, which seem to hinge on a dispute over a date: was it 1943 or 42?
Review:
A man's life cannot be summed up by one detail, seems to be the message of this densely woven, drily scripted character study featuring a magisterial central performance. The secondary character of the writer is not neglected and is seen to be in possession of a few skeletons of his own, like France itself, wringing its hands over its past and yet unable to own responsibility for it.
(Le promeneur du Champ de Mars)
Country: FR/SW
Technical: col 116m
Director: Robert Guédiguian
Cast: Michel Bouquet, Jalil Lespert, Philippe Fretun, Anne Cantineau
Synopsis:
A writer shadows the ailing president for months, collecting his memoirs and secretly intent on unravelling the inconsistencies surrounding accounts of his collaboration during the Second World War, which seem to hinge on a dispute over a date: was it 1943 or 42?
Review:
A man's life cannot be summed up by one detail, seems to be the message of this densely woven, drily scripted character study featuring a magisterial central performance. The secondary character of the writer is not neglected and is seen to be in possession of a few skeletons of his own, like France itself, wringing its hands over its past and yet unable to own responsibility for it.
(Le promeneur du Champ de Mars)
Country: FR/SW
Technical: col 116m
Director: Robert Guédiguian
Cast: Michel Bouquet, Jalil Lespert, Philippe Fretun, Anne Cantineau
Synopsis:
A writer shadows the ailing president for months, collecting his memoirs and secretly intent on unravelling the inconsistencies surrounding accounts of his collaboration during the Second World War, which seem to hinge on a dispute over a date: was it 1943 or 42?
Review:
A man's life cannot be summed up by one detail, seems to be the message of this densely woven, drily scripted character study featuring a magisterial central performance. The secondary character of the writer is not neglected and is seen to be in possession of a few skeletons of his own, like France itself, wringing its hands over its past and yet unable to own responsibility for it.