Title of film : Couers
Director Name : Alain Resnais
Cast & crew :
Producer : Bruno Pesery
Editor : Herve de Luze,Isaac Solemon
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Synopsis : Based on a play by Alan Ayckbourn, it is a story about seven characters who really want to socialize, and connect with friends and family or their closer ones, but end up being lonely and isolated from everyone, as opposed to what they really want. Dan has recently finished up a hitch in the Army, but rather than dealing with his emotional issues, Dan prefers to get drunk. While he barely communicates with his girlfriend Nicole, she's convinced they will still marry and opts to ignore his obvious problems. Lionel is a bartender who has become increasingly isolated and cut off from his friends as he looks after his father Arthur. Arthur, however, is in failing health and has little appreciation for his son's sacrifices. Thierry is a real estate salesman who has fallen for one of his co-workers, Charlotte; however, Charlotte's mild-mannered exterior hides a personality that thrives on emotional gamesmanship. And Gaelle, Thierry's sister, is lonely and looking for a relationship, but her efforts bring her neither joy nor companionship. In today’s time, where reacting to posts becomes much more important than emotional connection, Private Fears in Public Places is a film that predicted the despairing loneliness and complex psyche crumbling everyone, yet in a ‘socializing’ era, much ahead of its time.
Director Bio : Alain Resnais (3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was born on June 3, 1922 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He was a director and editor, known for Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Same Old Song (1997) and My American Uncle (1980). After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog (1956), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps. His films, Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and Muriel (1963), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past, were contemporary with, and associated with, the French New Wave, though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement. He had closer links to the "Left Bank" group of authors and filmmakers who shared a commitment to modernism and an interest in left-wing politics. Over 60 years, he was a political filmmaker who influenced the storytellers of parallel cinema.
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