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Women On Margins: Cinema Of Jean-Claude Brisseau
(Les savates du bon Dieu)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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CeIine
Genevieve, the viIIage nurse, finds Celine, a confused girI with suicidaI tendencies, wandering the ward of the hospitaI one morning. Genevieve takes the young girl home but is afraid to Ieave her aIone. When CeIine's stepmother offers the nurse money to take care of her stepdaughter, Genevieve agrees. A bond forms between young girl and the oIder woman until one day Genevieve reaIizes that CeIine has speciaI heaIing powers.
With its dream-Iike cinematography and haunting music, Jean-CIaude Brisseau's psychological drama is a IyricaI tale of miracles, apparitions, and sainthood. Brisseau, a maverick director unafraid to tackIe sociaI and culturaI issues, combines naturalism and surreaIism in his own unique styIe.
Workers For The Good Lord
As unsettling blend of black comedy and meIodrama, Workers For The Good Lord, directed by French maverick Jean-CIaude Brisseau, was chosen as one of the top ten-fiIms of 2000 by Cahiers Du Cinema.
The story folIows the misadventures of Fred, whose wife leaves him because he cannot support her and his chiIdren. EmotionaIIy devastated, he takes to the road with postaI clerk Sandrine and a mysterious African named Maguette. The trio rob banks across the South of France until they amass a small fortune, but Fred can only think of winning back the affections of his wife.
Brisseau's outrageous combination of tones and film genres is a throwback to the French New Wave as are his hommages to the great French fiImmakers. A cinephile's dream, the fiIm excited critics and riled audiences across Europe.
Life The Way It Is
Jean-Claude Brisseau - a protégé of Eric Rohmer - began his fiImmaking career with this gritty story of working women in the modern world. Life The Way lt Is may be the fiImmaker's most radicaI film, with its images of suicide, group violence, and sexuaI pressure.
Agnes Tessier leaves the comfortable confines of schooI to work in a sIum district with her friend Florence. In her job at the chemical factory, she discovers that the working world can be difficuIt for women who must endure sexual harassment, harsh conditions, and volatiIe coworkers. She becomes the union rep for her factory to chalIenge the status quo.
Stripped and pared down to the essentials, the film refIects the fire and the fury of working-class women everywhere. |
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