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Jean-Marc Barr,
Élodie Bouchez,
Jean-Marc Barr,
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Didier Le Pêcheur,
Didier Le Pêcheur
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: First Run Features
: Drama, Foreign, France, Erotica
: 86 min.
: French
: English
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A young woman dies of a drug overdose when she takes the ecstasy pill at a party. At the morgue, her corpse is raped by the attendant, who is overwhelmed by the youth and beauty of her body. The repressive act of necrophilia changes into something else when the girl returns from the other world and instead of pressing charges, tries to get to know her "savior" better. The film is a commentary on contemporary times where it seems to be easier to have sex than to make love. All characters have problems in their relationships with others. Despite its subject, J'aimerais Pas Crever un Dimanche avoids being voyeuristic. Instead of the bodies, the camera chooses to linger on faces as if trying to decipher what the characters are thinking at that precise moment. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, All Movie Guide
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| The Little Death
by talltale
April 24, 2006 - 8:21 PM PDT
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The French, in their typically intellectually questing, love-that-irony manner, have coined a phrase for sexual climax as "the little death." DON'T LET ME DIE ON A SUNDAY turns the phrase on its head and perhaps into something more like "the little life," since one of the protagonists is literally brought back from the dead by a morgue attendant who has his way with her corpse. Hooked yet--or perhaps irrevocably turned off? Don't get sucked into either choice because this oddball French film from 1998 compares to little else that I--and maybe you--have seen.
Toying with pretension, as the French often do, it ends up on the side of philosophy and depth, due to its many intelligent observations--about love and sex, life and death, friends and companions--and some spot-on acting by its entire cast. The lynch-pin event is handled with surprising gravity, even delicacy, and so becomes, if very bizarre, also believable.
The opening scene, with a lot of frenetic inter-cutting between character and place, is a bit much, but the movie soon settles down to its explorations of one man's sexual longing/experimentation and how this impacts on his body and mind and those of his friends/wife/partners. It's a troubling exploration, and it doesn't always click, but it may be worth your time, pain and questions. You'll offer the first, experience the second and ask the third, but I doubt you will dismiss this movie out of hand. Writer/director Didier Le Pecheur (he wrote the screenplay for "Harrison's Flowers") has only made a few films and since 2000 has worked mostly in French TV. I'd like to see more of his work released on DVD. |
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