Autumn Dream ( Rêve d'automne )

Autumn Dream (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Rêve d'automne
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
103 min + 26 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Stéphane Metge

Written By:
Jon Fosse
Terje Sinding

Actors:
Pascal Greggory ..... L'Homme
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi ..... La Femme
Bulle Ogier ..... La Mère
Bernard Verley ..... Le Père
Marie Bunel ..... Gry
Michelle Marquais
Alexandre Styker
Patrice Chereau

Synopsis:

There is a vast lobby painted red with paintings crouching in the dark, and the room of a museum where the living and the dead are summoned, and those whole lives we walk through with them, and death softly eating up everything, and desire fading away. The metaphor invented by Jon Fosse, that graveyard of all burials and of all lives, and the metaphor of the museum sparkled that sudden impulse which shot through my mind a year ago to the day, when, having by chance read this text, I was walking through the rooms of the museum where the play will come to life in 2010 on All Saints' Day. The funeral of an old woman becomes the funeral of a whole world, the empty room of a museum where bodies thwart and tear themselves. This is the death of a whole lineage on the men's side: the death of the paternal grandmother, that of the father, and then comes this man Fosse is telling us about, this man without qualities and his nineteen year-old son who will never know his child. And in the midst of these stubborn lives, there lurks the overwhelming shadow of desire and mourning, united in the same mausoleum. A dream in autumn, faces that love and suffer, unfulfilled sexual desire sapped by death and suicide. The bodies do nothing else but desire, however, with a heart, as Pierre Guyotat would say, that only pumps blood, a blood that no longer warms up.

A man and a woman who have known each other are facing us: what happens or happened between that man and that woman? What will their future - the future we are already witness to - be made of? And then, who is dead? Who is going to die? Sex and God are discussed in the same way here because this is about the end and about dilution: the death of strangers, the death of loved ones, the death of unfulfilled yet perpetual love. For men still live long when everything in them seems dead; it is simply what we call everyday life; under the cold light of sexual encounters, in the night already spreading, desire still burns with a fire that refuses to go out. And then you have the mothers who, like in the play, outlive everything, and you have the tireless grandmothers, as so many dancing ghosts dwelling in a graveyard-museum; they know how to watch all that with their blasé eyes while waiting for their great grandsons to come and join them in the grave, where they truly belong. Those couplings and familiar mythologies, those innumerable beings, living or dead, our ghosts: when night sets in, they come back to life under our eyes.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 26 February, 2013.

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