FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE La Belle Personne  

Who doesn't miss it, the Nouvelle Vague? In our video store, the French new wave is more popular than any other film direction! Nouvelle Vague, that's what we associate with beautiful women and cool guys who always smoke in chic Parisian street cafes. Most of the time they are gangsters. Quite dilettantish gangsters. There isn't much time for business anyway, because Nouvelle Vague films are primarily about love. And they look like pop art and that's why you still like them so much! Christophe Honoré seems determined to continue the tradition of the first generation of the Nouvelle Vague. For this he has chosen an original descendant: Louis Garrel, son of Philippe-Garrel and even godson of Jean-Pierre-Léaud! Garrel is Honore's alter ego. Together with him, Honore is happily expanding the possibilities of cinema - right up to the Nouvelle Vague Musical. La Belle Personne is something like a summary of his work. Best of all, La Belle Personne really looks like he was filmed in the early 60s! Nouvelle Vague Retro! The colors are so subtle as if we were in a black and white film. The plot also seems cloned: Two young men + a beautiful woman. Copy & paste of "Jules Et Jim" or "Bande A Part". Turtleneck sweaters, trousers and flats; Honore's heroes could just as well be accommodated in a Rivette movie. And doesn't Lea Seydoux look like Anna-Karina with her sad eyes under a big pony? She acts passively with a promise full of lips. And so the camera lingers and languishes on her face. Just like Jean-Luc-Godard used to do. Her name is Junie and she is not only beautiful but also good. She is loved by bland Otto and covets the charming Nemours (Garrel), who turns out to be an air act. Junie in any case remains abstinent and therefore can't develop something like a "plot". But it doesn't matter! In the Original Nouvelle Vague the plot is only secondary.