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La Frontière de l'aube
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Year:
2008
Original Title:
La Frontière de l'aube
País:
Director:
Color:
B&W
Format:
35 mm
Duration:
106 min
Synopsis
The marginal, the romantic, the lonely man: Philippe Garrel is all of those. Long gone is the sequence shot epic of La Cicatrice intérieure, but the obsessions are the same: the fascination and flirtation with death, the torrid loves of teenagers with messy hair, the relationships alienated due to an excess of affection. In the contrasted black and white and the fragmentation of bodies, Garrel has found a perfect vehicle for his overwhelming poetics, an idealism of impossible loves, epistolary confessions, and silenced tragedies. Louis, son and alter ego of the director, the protagonist of the titanic, overwhelmingly beautiful Regular Lovers, becomes immersed in a game of opposite/complementary pairs: the sickly blonde or the sweet brunette, the life drive and the death drive, bourgeois life or bohemian life. La Frontière de l'aube reminds of Jean Eustache, but perhaps it could be more appropriate to place it alongside fantastic literature, alongside Poe and Crowley. Garrel makes Paris look legendary; he brings back the sparkle of drunkenness and tears, that tragic, dark romanticism that becomes moving for its sadness, but also for its beauty.
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