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cert
PG, 117 minutes. £ 5.50
director: Robert Guediguian with Michel Bouquet | Jalil Lespert | Phillipe Fretun | Anne Contineau
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Wednesday 26th October at 18.45 and 21.30
Guediguian abandons his trademark focus on small town Marseilles life for a lightly fictionalised account of the last days of Francois Mitterand as viewed from the perspective of a young journalist invited to collaborate on the ex-President’s memoirs. Ostensibly an examination of Mitterand’s allegedly shady war-time past, the film provides a moving meditation on the nature of power and the attrition of time, the frailty of the body corporeal and the demands of the body politic. Rewarding, intelligent and incisive, with a towering central performance, this is contemporary European film making of the highest order. Recommended. “Brilliant” —Time Out “Riveting” —The Guardian
“Astonishing performances…a rich and thoughtful film” —Daily Telegraph
BEST SCREENPLAY– CANNES 2005 The Last Mitterand film trailer |
