À cause des filles..?
A wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don't make cultivated comedies like this anymore.
100'
France
IFFR 2020
By the end of the 1970s, Andrei Smirnov had had enough. One of the best and brightest auteurs to emerge from the Soviet 1960s couldn't stand constant harassment from the authorities anymore, and quit cinema for good. At least as a director; he stuck around as a screenwriter and actor. But then, after 32 years, he returned with Žila-byla odna baba (2011). Now A Frenchman suggests he's back to stay, and will continue directing.
A Frenchman, the story of a French exchange student's adventures in late 1950s Moscow, makes us painfully aware what a formidable cinematic mind and soul Smirnov has: discrete, educated, good-humoured, politically poignant while never dogmatic – the kind of public intellectual we perhaps need these days more than ever. Watching this film is like looking at a lost world, in more ways than one.
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
A contemporary film programme about the gaze of the old filmmaker, showing that the creative urge still burns as brightly as 50 years ago.
Read more about this programmeA wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don't make cultivated comedies like this anymore.
100'
France
IFFR 2020
In his characteristic style, Andersson at his existential, succinct best: everything that makes life human, in an hour and fifteen minutes.
76'
Sweden
IFFR 2020
Yanis Varoufakis vs. EU financial establishment. A Kammerspiel-style classical political thriller that leaves no doubts about the good and the bad.
124'
France
IFFR 2020