Our Story (Blier, 1984): Cine Lumiere, 2pm
This 35mm presentation is also screened on November 11th and is part of the Nathalie Baye season at Cine Lumiere. Full details here.Chicago Reader review:
A businessman with a hangdog face (Alain Delon) drinks too much beer on a
train. “What will happen to him?” he asks aloud, then answers:
“Absolutely nothing.” An affectless woman (Nathalie Baye) appears and
tells him, “The story begins on a train.” A sexual encounter between
them leaves him smitten. Begging her to use him “as a minor character,”
he follows her home to the suburbs and installs himself in her easy
chair to wallow in his infatuation and drink more beer, sometimes
joining her friends and bathrobe-clad neighbors in parading from house
to house. Bertrand Blier begins this enchanting 1984 burlesque of
bourgeois marital manners in the self-reflexive spirit of Alain
Robbe-Grillet, morphs it into a droll Bunuelian farce, then ends it on a
surprisingly sentimental note. With Genevieve Fontanel.
Bill Stamets
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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