Monday, June 28, 2010

Ankles Of A Ballerina

Nearly 20 years is nothing (XXXVII)


Small arrangements with the dead ( Petits Arrangements avec les morts), Pascale Ferran
France, 1994
was screened at the Cinematheque on Oct. 25, 1997
within the series "Panorama of the new French film"

A beach in summer. A man builds a sand castle and is watched by three people: his brother, sister and a child. All were marked by the death of someone close. Award winner for Best Debut Film at Cannes 1994. Notable

first feature film of director Pascale Ferran, these "little arrangements with the dead" with emotion and humor describe the different ways of being traversed by the grief of a loved one in an intelligent story that evokes childhood as a metaphor film and that, despite the grief suffered, is a celebration of life.

"Plane after plane, Pascale Ferran has been able to observe a crescendo at sunset that gradually darkens the film " Didier Peron

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