Merci la vie

1991, 117m, 35mm, France

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Screened March 6–19, 2019

Blier revisited his overlapping realms of seriocomic buddy movie and experimental flights of fancy, this time with young women; Charlotte Gainsbourg and Anouk Grinberg team as fast friends who blow through small-town restrictions before facing turning points including a health crisis. The supporting cast, impressive even by Blier standards, includes Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Blanc, Annie Girardot, and César Award-winning Jean Carmet.

In French with English subtitles

 

A film by Bertrand Blier