GAY ROAD MOVIE Dréle De Félix (the) 97 mins
A lrkeable gay-themed road movre ab0ut a guy travelling from Normandy to Marserlle rn search of hrs father, Dre/e De Fe/rx rs rn essence a me of passage A pensroner he meets along the way may tell Felrx :Samr BOLlaleal 'ne's too old to need a dad, but thrs 30- year-old recently unemployed ferry worker strll looks as If he needs, and wants, at least a few lrt’e less0ns Dutrfully structurrng the frlm around these lessons, drrectors Olryrer Ducastel and Jacques Martrneau’s eprsodrc story prOVIdeS Felix with a klnd Of family In drrbs and drabs. Hrs gurck flrng wrth a seventeen-year-old rs Introduced to us by the Subtitle ‘my Irttie brother', whrle the pensroner gets to play grandmama
Likeable gay-themed road movie
for a day and a nrght.
But though the frlm’s tone rs generally cosy, rt also rncorporates the rrsque and the pOrlthaI Felrx warrly turns down a lover's allusrve offer of urrnatrng on hrm, whrie the pensroner looks heartrly drsappornted when Felrx announces hrs gay status And repOrts of a racrst murder up north punctuate FeIrx's JOurrey SOUII‘
In their preyrorus frlm, Jeanne Et Le Garcon Formrc/ab/e, the drrectors worked srmrlariy socro-specrfrc materral rnto that most utopran of genres, the musrcal Here, the rncorporatron rs smoother the road movre rs a more open eco-system, generally more amenable to rearrst tamperrngs. rTony IyIc'Krbbtn
Fr/mhouse, Ed/nburgn from Fr/ 27 Oct
'31 "at Lfi
Spare narrative offering maximum interpretative freedom
DRAMA
The Wind Will Carry Us (U) 118mins ~ t
You may come Out of the great Iranran drector Abbas Krarostamr’s frlm feelrng yOu’ve seen much ado about nothrng, That thrs tale rs mom a number of strangers stayrng for a c0uple of weeks rn a remote, hrgh-perched vr‘rlage barely v-rarrants rts two-hour runnrng trme But If caught by rts rhythm, rts aI.L.lSIye and elusye pOSSrbrIrtleS and Its frdelzty to leayrng an audrence to thrnk and feel for themsewes, yOu'll realrse tars rs a ‘nothrng' about much do, that Krarostarrr b":;|rantly offers the sparest ot' narratives to offer maxrmum .nterpretatrve freedom
FOr on one level the frlm 2s a strarghtforward study of a small vrllage and an urbanrte’s (Behzad DOUlallI» temporary place Within rt, and on
another level well that's where Krarostamr refuses to show hrs hand. What he offers :sn’t so much text and sub-text, more a text wrth a resolutely realrst surface, yet wrth the most rntrrcate ‘aporras' gaps the audrence frll m themselves, but that m the process leaves more guestrons than anst-rers. Why rs DOuranr the only member of the crew whom we see as well as hear7 And the guy Dowanr sees workrng at the vrllage cemetery, \.'.hat's he up to? And rs DOuranr a benrgn or malrgn presence m the Kurclrstan village 450 mrles from Tehran7 lt’ Hollywood rnsrsts on showing us everythrng concert/able, Krarostarnr creates a more profOund sense of awe and unease by rngerrously leavrng thrngs Out.
rTony McKrbbrnr
Fr/m/muse, Ed/nburgh from Fr/ 27 Oct
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