Les Choses de la Vie (Sautet, 1970): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.45pm.
This film, which also screens on June 3rd, is part of the Michel Piccoli season at BFI Southbank. Yoiu can find all the details here.
Time Out review:
A
not uninteresting attempt to make a film about ordinary, everyday
minutiae, with Michel Piccoli as an average sensual man, vaguely torn
between a demanding mistress (Romy Schneider) and an ex-wife (Lea
Massari) to whom he still feels bound. Quietly and deftly, Claude Sautet
sketches in the portrait of a man gradually becoming aware that he is
coming to a crossroads in his life. But since the opening sequence
reveals that he is shortly to die in a car crash, his attempt to make
some decision about his life is much ado about nothing - which is
precisely the point of the film. Difficult to make a film about banality
without being boring in the process, but Sautet all but pulls it off,
thanks to a beautifully understated performance from Piccoli which
manages to extract a whole lifetime of meaning from a simple gesture
like lighting a cigarette, and to illuminate the film's meticulously
detailed naturalistic surface.
Tom Milne
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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