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<-- back When we last screened Bruno Dumont (1), he wasn't the most likely candidate to ever make a costume film, a period drama, or a comedy with Juliette Binoche, and Pirate Cinema wouldn't have been the most likely place to show any of these. It probably still isn't, but this one is just too good to pass on it. Like two of Dumont's most recent works, Hors Satan and P'tit Quinquin, the film is set in the sandy seasides of northern France, on the beach and in the bushes. This is where he grew up, and if there's one thing he has figured out since, then that's how to film a dune landscape. The results can be quite stunning. The story is set in the summer of 1910, and that must be what makes it feel so contemporary. The society we see is a class society, the summer light makes the contours of these divisions much sharper, and there's a distinct pre-war breeze in the air. The rich are all imbeciles, and the poor (mild spoiler) eat them. The film opens with the noisy arrival of a bourgeois family at their seaside estate, and a fat detective rolling downhill in the sand. In fact, the cops look like Laurel and Hardy, and they turn everything they touch into very early cinema. When the film closes, they will have succeeded at defeating gravity. The locals live a bit further inland, but they do appear by the water at times. They don't speak much, but the kids will make contact. What follows are dinner conversations, acts of violence, subtle misunderstandings, attempts to provoke divine intervention and various class-specific states of confusion and insanity. What's truly bizarre, however, is that Dumont has managed to couch a fully believable love story amidst all the slapstick and madness, involving a boy who dresses as a girl who is also a girl who dresses as a boy, and who, against all odds, turns out to be one of the most plausible characters he has ever invented. (1) https://piratecinema.org/screenings/20070819 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- sunday july 23 9 pm ma loute bruno dumont, 2016 120 min, english subs pirate cinema berlin u kottbusser tor e-mail for directions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- () >< pirate cinema berlin www.piratecinema.org <-- back |