A young French man and an older English woman spend one night together on a ship.A young French man and an older English woman spend one night together on a ship.A young French man and an older English woman spend one night together on a ship.
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- TriviaThe movie is about Thomas' first time, but also the one of Gilles Guillain, the actor who plays Thomas. Director Catherine Breillat remembers how, during the shooting, the young actor revealed her he was still a virgin. "One day we were at the table, with the whole crew, and I asked him if he had ever been in love. He looked me directly in the eye and said in a barely audible, but still clear voice, 'Yes, I've been in love before, but I've never really gotten into it.' We all looked at each other a little strangely, because, I mean, in the film he was playing a sixteen-year-old boy, but in reality he's eighteen, although this excessive shyness helps make him appear younger." So Breillat had to rewrite, in part, the love scene between him and Sarah Pratt, creating a choreography that corresponded better to their bodies. Morever, as the sex between the two actors had to be unsimulated, she told her head cameraman that all the scene had to be filmed once, there was to be no repetition, "because what would happen the first time would be something really upsetting. And it's true, their love scene is magnificent, because all of a sudden you see that he's doing it, he's living it, but it's so fragile and so strong at the same time that if there had been a second take he would have already been used to the scene."
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One word Masterpiece
Why is it in the twilight of cinema only the French can produce masterpieces? This is the first Catherine Breillat movie that I've seen. I'll be on the lookout for them from now on. This ranks with the masterpieces of the French cinema. It is Truffaut (youthful innocence), Godard(ballet of camera movement with independent activities in foreground and background and Blier (absurdity, realism and sex) all rolled together. This is the human spirit revealed. It is erotic, at least it is a study in erotic passion, but it is as far from pornography as film gets. Sarah Pratt's acting is superb. I hope she won a caesar for this.
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- jayraskin1
- Nov 3, 2011
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