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La Vie Révée Des Anges
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Director Erick Zonca's tale of two adults barely out of their teens is a harrowing exploration of emotional brutality. Elodie Bouchez plays a traveller arriving in Lille with no job and no contacts. Feigning manufacturing skills, she gets a job sewing dresses and meets at the factory Natacha Regnier. Regnier, flat- sitting for a mother and daughter in hospital after a car crash, allows Bouchez to move in. From there, both characters gravitate towards love — Regnier with a ’sporlt rich kid' (Gregoire Colin); Bouchez with the comatose daughter whose diary she reads. Shades of The Lacemaker, Vagabonde and the recent En Avo/r Ou Pas in a film of some intensity. (Tony McKibbin)
fies a Vie Revee Des Anges, Odeon, Sun 30, 9.45pm, £6.50 ([4).
Dance Me To My Song
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Heather Rose co-wrote and stars in this story of Julia, a woman who is unable to control her limbs and uses a voice synthesiser to speak, but whose brain is working qurte normally. To call it 'brave' is insulting. It's a sexy, touching, feelgood movre with a rather slight and obvrous plot: Julia escapes from the clutches of the carer from hell by falling for the enigmatic Eddie. What makes it work is director Rolf de Heer’s slow and careful revelation of how Julia's life has as much potential for love, hedonistic excess, surcidal misery or humdrum normality as anyone else’s.
(Thom Dibdin)
2&2 Dance Me To My Song, Fl/mhouse 7, Thu 27, 7pm, Fi/mhouse 7, Sat 29, 7pm, [6 50 ([4)
Secret Defense
Directed by Jacques Rivette, Secret Defense is the tale of Sylvie (Sandrine
Ron Haviliio directs Fragments'
Bonnaire), who learns from her brother, Paul (Gregoire Colin), that their father was murdered five years previously. Paul wants revenge on a man called Walser, but Sylvie decides to get there first, armed with a gun. However, things go wrong when she accidentally kills Walser’s friend, Veronique, and finds herself transformed from righteous avenger into murderess. The film's three-hour length is due to the preponderance of 'real time’ sequences, which capture Sylvie’s emotions in a way that dialogue cannot. Driven by Bonnaire’s strong performance, Secret Defense is an involving story of botched revenge. (Beth Williams)
a Secret Defense, Fi’lmhouse 7, Sat 29, 7.75pm, £6.50 (£4).
Welcome To Woop Woop
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'You married?’ 'No.’ 'Pull over.’ Well, that’s romantic courtship for you in the Australian outback. On the surface, Stephan Elliott’s follow-up to The Adventures Of Priscilla lacks comic subtlety, but in a way that’s the very point: the director is blasting a satirical shotgun at a type of fellow countryman for whom lager is the elrxrr of life. American con-man Teddy finds himself in a Kafka-at—Hanging-Rock scenario: unwittingly married to sex- maniac Angie, he wakes to find himself in the isolated town of Woop Woop, where no one is allowed to leave alive and Rodgers and Hammerstein songs are an unoffiCIal national anthem. Outrageously crude, the film is like an overbearing uncle who encourages you to chuckle when he farts at the dinner table. (Alan Morrison)
a Welcome To Woop Woop, Cameo 7, Sat 29, 70.30pm, £6.50 ([4).
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interweaving on man's family history with that of a city from Biblical times to the present day. Fiimhouse 3, Sat 29, 11am, £6.50 (£4).
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