WINNER, BEST DIRECTOR Venice Film Festival 2006
FILM OF THE YEAR Cahiers du Cinema, 2006
PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES (Coeurs)
November 2-5, 12-15 / 7:00, 9:15
FRANCE 2006 // Director: Alain Resnais // 120 minutes // 35mm
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VANCOUVER PREMIERE // VANCITY THEATRE EXCLUSIVE
“Ineffably graceful, Private Fears is a heartbreakingly delicate meditation on loss, uncertainty and love, made with the kind of serene wisdom available only to true masters. The venerable Alain Resnais collaborates once again with British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, and theater and cinema join to make exquisite music. The action is set in a magically snowbound Paris where the destinies of six lonely souls converge and commingle. André Dussollier is the real estate agent smitten with his pious assistant (Sabine Azéma), who moonlights as a home-care attendant for the hell-raising father (an off-screen Claude Rich) of a widowed bartender (Pierre Arditi), who works at a stylish modern hotel bar frequented by an embittered army vet (Lambert Wilson), who parts with his fiancée (Laura Morante) and meets a shy, lovely young woman (Isabel Carré), who lives with her brother, the real-estate agent.”—New York Film Festival
“This is Resnais’ darkest and most moving film since Melo in 1986; the unifying image is provided by a constant, artificial snowfall that produces a strange silence in the streets of Paris and a chill in the characters’ hearts. At 84, the eternally elegant, emotionally reserved Resnais seems to be allowing the mask to slip a bit: this is the quietly devastating testament of a deeply lonely man.”—Dave Kehr
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