Here comes a DVD that I brought back from Paris in the first years after our video store opened. Import with German subtitles. For a long time it was difficult to complete our collection, especially of French Nouvelle Vague authors. Today it is almost done, but - irony of fate! - shortly before we are allowed to say goodbye to the medium of DVD in order to stream only on amazon. I dare to doubt, however, whether amazon is pursuing a similarly missionary zeal to organise all Resnais films? There is always something to hide in Alain Resnais On Connait La Chanson. For example, when Marc (Lambert Wilson) sells Odile (Sabine Azema) a flat with a fabulous view (but hides the fact that it will soon be blocked by a skyscraper). Fears of loss, love & guilt, secret illnesses, performed by an all-star ensemble around Agnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, who also wrote the screenplay. Life is a game of hide and seek - with others, but also with ourselves! The most beautiful thing about it: in the most absurd moments, the protagonists break out into song or they dance when the plot does not require it. Because life is hard and full of worries and what should the playback voice of Johnny Hallyday, of all people, change about that? All these characters are middle-aged and childless. Of course, because they themselves only reached the developmental stage of children. Old cinema themes of memory and longing move them, but never before experienced like longing in this tone. If you're looking for genres like "comedy" or "musical", you're in the wrong place, because after all, Alain Resnais represents one of the key positions in European art cinema! But if you want to find out how Resnais' characters really think and feel, then listen to the chansons again very carefully. They serve as a cipher. Only in the chanson lines do you find out what Resnais' protagonists really feel.
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