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While Téchiné usually braids together several intersecting stories, this wartime drama traces a single linear tale with only four characters. In 1940, an attractive widow flees Nazi-occupied Paris for the South with her small daughter and teenage son; they are soon joined by a mysterious young man.
Feb 7, 2006 · An almost perfect cinematic experience, André Téchiné’s film is the story of four young people on the cusp of their adult lives. Set in a small town in southwest France in the spring of 1962, the narrative follows the characters from scene to scene, the camera studying them closely and the editing creating a domino-like effect as each ...
- Katharine Thornton
From 1981, Téchiné becomes closer to his characters’ emotions, and draws on 19 th century literary narrative techniques (e.g. the Balzacian hero or the novel of education), as J’embrasse pas, particularly, illustrates.
Oct 5, 2016 · In André Téchiné’s vibrant new film, Being 17, two teens wrestle with desire and hostility in a mountainous corner of France. The subject matter is not new for Téchiné, who has for more ...
Dec 3, 1999 · Dinner with André. Film-maker André Téchiné talks to Peter Lennon about uncontrollable characters, hostile critics and the fight for taste. Thu 2 Dec 1999 21.15 EST.
Téchiné reunites Arteuil and Deneuve, playing exceedingly dissimilar characters, a cop and a philosophy professor, who are brought together over their sexual involvement with a much younger and very desperate woman (Laurence Cote) who works for a crime family of which Arteuil is the "white" sheep.
André Téchiné (b. 13th March, 1943) wrote criticism for Cahiers du cinema during the 1960s, and made his first film, Paulina s’en va, in 1969. Since then he has become one of the most important directors in French cinema, known for his atmospheric and emotionally charged films such as Les soeurs Bronté (The Bronte Sisters, 1979), Ma ...
