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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, life-affirming final fiIm by French New Wave legend Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad).
Resnais' third adaptation of an Alan Ayckbourn pIay (after Smoking/No Smoking and Private Fears in Public Places), Life of Riley circIes around the absent George Riley, who has been diagnosed with terminaI cancer. Three couples react to the news with various degrees of emotion. The women are each separately 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, CaroIine SiIhoI, 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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