- I haven't seen many Camera d'or contenders (first films in all sections go up for this unique award at Cannes) but this euro drama (ordinary people, authentic situations) from Axelle Ropert is an exception to the normal rule: The Wolberg Family is smart and the pacing is just right: slowly dispensing backstory that gives weight to the deep wounds each individual carries (all age groups included). The climax, a father's speech at a birthday party especially rings true and fulfills the promise of something worth seeing: I hope this finds a festival life. Full length review coming soon. Director Axelle Ropert. Matriarch: Valérie Benguigui Patriarch: François Damiens The whole family: Valérie Benguigui, François Damiens, Valentin Vigourt, Léopoldine Serre, Serge Bozon and vet actor Jean-Luc Bideau...
- 5/22/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Claude Miller’s A Secret is a solid, satisfying drama about the consequences of barely-guised desire set against the dangerous political background of Nazi-occupied France. Based on Philippe Grimbert’s autobiographical novel, A Secret constructs its revelations through enspirited premonitions and layered flashbacks, interestingly rendered in full color while the present day is shot in black and white; a cinematic inversion of the norm that works quite successfully, as if to say (by way of color) that there is more life in the past than there will ever be in the present. In other words, the colorful secrets of the past have leached the vitality out of the present.
Scrawny François (Valentin Vigourt) was born a four-pound baby who, despite vitamin B injections, has never physically developed into any form of noticeable strength. His imagination is strong, however. He imagines a stronger older brother who defrays the frustrated disappointment of...
Scrawny François (Valentin Vigourt) was born a four-pound baby who, despite vitamin B injections, has never physically developed into any form of noticeable strength. His imagination is strong, however. He imagines a stronger older brother who defrays the frustrated disappointment of...
- 11/4/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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