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Contemporary World Cinema: "35 rhums"
35 Shots of Rum
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Directed by Claire Denis
France/Germany, 2008
Color
100 Minutes
French with English subtitles
Show Times:
Fri., Nov. 20 7:30 PM
Sat., Nov. 21 7:00 PM
Sun., Nov. 22 5:00 PM
"Claire Denis has created a sensual and contemplative body of films over the years, but nothing in her work prepares us for this deeply emotional yet light-of-touch story set among a small circle of Parisians and their friends. In fact, Denis evokes nothing so much as Eric Rohmer in his "seasons" quartet as she follows the various characters in a roundelay of relationships that touches on almost every kind of love there is: father-daughter, old lovers, old colleagues, absent mother, lost sister, unrequited, one-night, budding, brooding . . . Lionel (Alex Descas), a train engineer, shares an apartment with his daughter Jo (Mati Diop), a university student. In the same building live taxi driver Gabrielle (Nicole Dogué) and a young man who comes and goes, Noe (the intense and always mysterious Grégoire Colin, like Descas, a Denis regular). Together, they are a kind of family. We figure out their roles and relationships only gradually as Denis leaves crumbs along her narrative path for us to follow—it´s one of the great pleasures of this extraordinarily pleasurable film made up of small moments, of looks and silences, of magical touches of physicality and pensiveness. Agnés Godard´s cinematography richly limns an interior architecture in which objects take on an Ozu-like delicacy and immediacy, and uses train tracks (and cars and motorbikes and vans) to propel the story into the out of doors and eventually, the future, as father and daughter face the inevitable: her independence." — San Francisco International Film Festival
"Marvelously profound, illuminating the love between a father and daughter but also highlighting the difficulty of relinquishing what most people spend a lifetime putting into place." — Variety
This film is part of the Contemporary World Cinema film series.
Claire Denis spent time in Houston in the early 1980s as first assistant director on Wim Wenders´s iconic Paris, Texas. Since then she has earned critical acclaim for a filmography that includes such audacious films as Chocolat (1988), Nenette et Boni (1996), and Trouble Every Day (2001). The friendship she formed with Houston band Mydolls continues to the present, and 35 rhums features a Mydolls song on its soundtrack.
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