INTERPRETATIONS

Strayed illusions

Seven years after the film Thieves (Les voleurs), new film by André Téchiné completely fulfilled great expectations incited by the long wait. The film puts in the foreground various forms of relationship dynamics, both in space and between the characters, developing Téchiné’s favourite problematics of forms and interrelations of social and psychological initiation. As always in Téchiné’s films, acting is flawless, but masterly Emmanuelle Béart still stands out. Extremely complex character dynamics, shaped by careful nuancing of the archetypal structure, establishes itself primarily through the unsaid and outlined. Téchiné generally and systematically avoids »great« scenes, and rarely uses master shots, offering actors the opportunity to develop characters in time, through sequences, and the viewers to gradually reconstruct spatial relations.

Tomislav Brlek