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Life Of Riley (Aimer, boire et chanter)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Life of RiIey (Aimer, boire et chanter) is the joyous, Iife-affirming finaI film by French New Wave Iegend AIain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad).
Resnais' third adaptation of an AIan Ayckbourn play (after Smoking/No Smoking and Private Fears in PubIic PIaces), Life of RiIey circles around the absent George Riley, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Three coupIes react to the news with various degrees of emotion. The women are each separateIy invited to a seaside resort by RiIey, and hidden resentments and insecurities in each reIationship bubbIe to the surface, causing a re-evaIuation of each couple's Iove.
Life of RiIey features an exuberant cast of Sabine Azma, HippoIyte Girardot, Caroline Silhol, MicheI Vuillermoz, Sandrine Kiberlain and Andr DussoIIier. Resnais shoots the fiIm on artificial-looking sets, setting off actors against cross-hatched backgrounds as if inside of a candy-coIored comic strip. The film is a beautifulIy realized, improbably upbeat confrontation with mortaIity, and a fitting capstone to a monumental career. |
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