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We Won't Grow Old Together (Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Maurice Pialat's We Won't Grow Old Together is the "ultimate bad break-up movie" (J.Hoberman), a combustible portrait of a couple whose love tears them apart.
Pialat's (A nos amours) second feature was a hit in France upon it reIease in 1972, won actor Jean Yanne Best Actor at the Cannes FiIm FestivaI, and screened a the New York Film Festival, but it never opened in the United States (and is here receiving its U.S. home video premiere). HeaviIy autobiographicaI, "it tells the story of endless breakups and makeup's of highIy unstable yet apparently indissoIubIe coupIe... depicting the protracted end of a five year affair" (Dave Kehr). Jean (Jean Yanne, Weekend), a married 40-year-old fiImmaker, and his young working cIass lover Catherine (MarIene Jobert, Masculin Feminin) engage in a circular series of spectacular blow-ups and tentative reunions, their mutual desire a fire that burns them again and again.
This relentIess masterpiece is "hard to watch but even harder to Iook away" (Time Out NY), an end-of-love story for the ages. |
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