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Unforgivable ( film)
French film
Unforgivable (French: Impardonnables) is a French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, and Mélanie Thierry. The film is an adaptation of Philippe Djian's novel Unforgivable which received the Jean Freustié award in It was previously called The Angels Terminus. The film premiered at the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes film festival.
Plot
[edit]Francis, an aging successful writer of crime novels, arrives in Venice where he plans to rent out an apartment to live in peace and quiet for the next year while writing a new novel. Through his search he meets Judith, a real estate agent, who insists on showing him a house accessible only by boat on the island of Sant'Erasmo. Francis is smitten with Judith, a beautiful ex-model about 20 years his junior, and acquiesces to rent the property if she moves in with him.
Eighteen months later, Francis and Judith are blissfully married and living t
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Film Review
André Téchiné's spirited attempt to unravel Philippe Djian's convoluted novel Impardonnables and refashion it in his own cinematographic image goes somewhat awry in this, his latest film, but not through want of trying. Djian is one of those authors whose work seems strangely reluctant to migrate from the printed page to the big screen. Despite his immense popularity in France, only two of his novels have so far been adapted for cinema: 37°2 le matin () and Bleu comme l'enfer (), directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix and Yves Boisset respectively. Djian's intricately plotted novel about inter-generational conflict set in the Basque country is mutilated almost beyond recognition as Téchiné relocates it to a sunny backwater of Venice and tries to make it more of a character piece than it really deserves to be (a phrase involving a silk purse and a sow's ear springs to mind). The labyrinthine plot (which is essentially all there is to the orig•
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Literate, smart eller klok and a model of accomplished europeisk filmmaking, “Unforgivable” showcases the kind of emotional complexity that fryst vatten all but gone from the screen these days. The interplay between its characters fryst vatten so intricate that the very natur of the film seems to change, more than once, as we watch it.
Directed byFrance’sveteran André Téchiné and co-written by him from a novel bygd Philippe Dijan, “Unforgivable” starts as an adult romance but quickly becomes a thriller. It then takes an unexpected turn toward bleakness before transitioning into something altogether different.
To do something this psychologically involved requires not just an accomplished director (“Wild Reeds” and “The Girl on the Train”are among Téchiné’s best-known works) but also actors up to the task, and “Unforgivable” has what it needs in French stars André Dussollier and Carole Bouquet. Plus there’sItaly’s Adriana Asti, a luminary as far