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François Dervieux
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| Clotilde Hesme | ... |
Lilie
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Julien Lucas | ... |
Antoine
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Eric Rulliat | ... |
Jean-Christophe
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Nicolas Bridet | ... |
Luc - le cousin d'Antoine
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Mathieu Genet | ... |
Nicolas
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Raïssa Mariotti |
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Caroline Deruas-Garrel |
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Rebecca Convenant | ... |
Charlène
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Marie Girardin |
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Maurice Garrel | ... |
Lucien - le grand père de François
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Cécile Garcia-Fogel | ... |
(as Cécile Garcia-Fogiel)
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Marc Barbé | ... |
Jean
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Gauthier
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Brigitte Sy | ... |
la mère de François
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1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do? Written by <[email protected]>
This is clearly a French film. It is about young group of idealist/revolutionary/anarchistic people. It moves very slowly. Long takes. LOng closeups. A minute or more devoted to an attempt to light a pipe full of hash/opium. A long take on how a group overturns a car and burns it. It is a black and white film. The subtitles were white, so about a third of the time they were unreadable. (Why do they do this?) I walked out after about an hour and three quarters when it became clear that this picture was going nowhere, slow. I was not the first to walk out. It was the first time I walked out of a picture in my long lifetime. (Well, maybe the second.)