Rien à foutre (2021)
(Zero Fucks Given)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col/1.66:1 115m
Director: Julie Lecoustre, Emmanuel Marre
Cast: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Alexandre Perrier, Mara Taquin
Synopsis:
A young woman leaves her bereaved family in Belgium to be an air hostess, her peripatetic existence seeming to conform to a general aimlessness and hedonism in her character. However, her unorthodox approach creates friction with the management when she is coerced into promotion as cabin leader.
Review:
The influence of the Dardenne brothers continues to reach far and wide, but nowhere more, apparently, than in their home country. Not a bad thing per se, except when we lose a sense of narrative; too often, as here, we are thrown in at the deep end only to be left treading water, and at what length! Every scene, every shot is held for twice as long as is needed: Adèle offers passengers coffee; Adèle has a smoke; Adèle walks through airport; Adèle texts or selfies on Tinder. She sustains the camera's unremitting gaze very well, but the essence of it, that her mother's untimely death has led her to self-anaesthetize in the least personal industry known to man, where her isolated acts of humanity towards passengers are the only authentic notes in the film, is surely one too self-evident to require this degree of exposure.
(Zero Fucks Given)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col/1.66:1 115m
Director: Julie Lecoustre, Emmanuel Marre
Cast: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Alexandre Perrier, Mara Taquin
Synopsis:
A young woman leaves her bereaved family in Belgium to be an air hostess, her peripatetic existence seeming to conform to a general aimlessness and hedonism in her character. However, her unorthodox approach creates friction with the management when she is coerced into promotion as cabin leader.
Review:
The influence of the Dardenne brothers continues to reach far and wide, but nowhere more, apparently, than in their home country. Not a bad thing per se, except when we lose a sense of narrative; too often, as here, we are thrown in at the deep end only to be left treading water, and at what length! Every scene, every shot is held for twice as long as is needed: Adèle offers passengers coffee; Adèle has a smoke; Adèle walks through airport; Adèle texts or selfies on Tinder. She sustains the camera's unremitting gaze very well, but the essence of it, that her mother's untimely death has led her to self-anaesthetize in the least personal industry known to man, where her isolated acts of humanity towards passengers are the only authentic notes in the film, is surely one too self-evident to require this degree of exposure.
(Zero Fucks Given)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col/1.66:1 115m
Director: Julie Lecoustre, Emmanuel Marre
Cast: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Alexandre Perrier, Mara Taquin
Synopsis:
A young woman leaves her bereaved family in Belgium to be an air hostess, her peripatetic existence seeming to conform to a general aimlessness and hedonism in her character. However, her unorthodox approach creates friction with the management when she is coerced into promotion as cabin leader.
Review:
The influence of the Dardenne brothers continues to reach far and wide, but nowhere more, apparently, than in their home country. Not a bad thing per se, except when we lose a sense of narrative; too often, as here, we are thrown in at the deep end only to be left treading water, and at what length! Every scene, every shot is held for twice as long as is needed: Adèle offers passengers coffee; Adèle has a smoke; Adèle walks through airport; Adèle texts or selfies on Tinder. She sustains the camera's unremitting gaze very well, but the essence of it, that her mother's untimely death has led her to self-anaesthetize in the least personal industry known to man, where her isolated acts of humanity towards passengers are the only authentic notes in the film, is surely one too self-evident to require this degree of exposure.