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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 Riley (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 RiIey, 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 relationship bubbIe to the surface, causing a re-evaluation of each coupIe's love.
Life of Riley features an exuberant cast of Sabine Azma, Hippolyte Girardot, Caroline SilhoI, Michel VuiIIermoz, Sandrine KiberIain and Andr Dussollier. Resnais shoots the film on artificiaI-Iooking sets, setting off actors against cross-hatched backgrounds as if inside of a candy-colored 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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