Vertigen escribió:LE VOYAGE EN DOUCE of Michel Deville.1980. DVDRip
English title
Sentimental journey
Directed by
Michel Deville
Writing credits
Michel Deville
Produced by
Maurice Bernart
Original Music by
Catherine Ardouin
Cinematography by
Claude Lecomte
Cast
Dominique Sanda .... Hélène
Geraldine Chaplin .... Lucie
Jacques Zabor ......... Denis
Jean Crubelier ......... The man in the house
Valerie Masterson .... The singer
Cécile Le Bailly ........ Marie
Jacqueline Parent ..... Mathilde
Jacques Pieiller ........ Pinson
Françoise Morhange.. The grandmother
Frédéric Andréi ......... Young waiter in hotel
Plot summary
Lucia and Elena are best friends since childhood. They take a car trip from Paris to the south of France in the search of a summer house. Their conversations are overtly intimate, but more revealing is their tacit understanding of each others' personality and desires.
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081729/
About Le voyage en douce
Two intelligent, beautiful women pushing thirty—friends since childhood—take a long weekend together in the south of France, tell each other stories, try on different outfits, eat, take photographs, argue, flirt… Depending on one’s tolerance for such things, there are far worse ways you can spend ninety-five minutes.
Directed by Michel Deville, with Dominique Sanda and Geraldine Chaplin at their prime and on screen for nearly all of the picture, Le Voyage en douce is a pastel reflection on memory, aging, sexuality, nostalgia, infidelity, dreams and dashed hopes, all in the guise of a summery, erotic confection.
Deville wrote the screenplay with the help of more than a dozen collaborators, each lending sundry anecdotes to flesh out the itinerant Helene (Sanda) and Lucie (Chaplin). They’re both married, Helene with two young children and Lucie childless, living lives that fall short of their youthful expectations. Admissions and visualizations of disorder and frustration merge with fantasies and vague recollections, and the lines separating fact from fiction soon blur.
As he’d later do in La Lectrice (1988), Deville segues freely between the two, often accompanied by a narration which may or may not be riddled with fabrication. He subtly changes our perception of the narrative form, to a point where we’re no longer concerned about situations as much as we are about the personalities involved. Some of the significant issues that are raised—who’s that man sitting next to Helene at the recital? why has Lucie’s husband removed all the doors inside their home?—go unanswered, enticing us to fill in the blanks, albeit with yet more questions. Is Helene sleeping with Lucie’s husband? Is Lucie a suicide risk?
With serene passages from Beethoven’s bagatelles fluttering on its soundtrack, the attempt to explore the female psyche appears genuine (and Deville couldn’t have cast better players), but Le Voyage en douce clearly stems from a biased perspective. Male characters are distant, one-dimensional and generally lascivious, a convenient means for Deville to avoid scrutinizing his own sex, if not himself. And at their core, Helene and Lucie are undermined by varying levels of confusion, that archaic but pervasive male stereotype of female weakness. Taking a long weekend away from the controlling men in their lives, they’re hounded by reminders of actual and imagined shortcomings and disheartenment. Far less articulate or worldly than the people you’d find in an Eric Rohmer film, Deville offers Helene as an emblem of determination and sensuality, while Lucie carries the burden of excessive innocence and frailty. Unlike the similarly disparate (and desperate) pair in Thelma & Louise (1991), Helene and Lucie never quite entwine as one—Helene’s masculine side would never allow it and Lucie’s just too scared.
Ray Young. DVD Review
See also Rich009 http://72.15.144.56/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27374
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