Directed by: Andrew Birkin
Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Andrew Robertson, Alice Coulthard
Language: English + Commentary (2nd track) | Subtitles: English (embed)
Country: France | Imdb Info | Ar: 1.637 | Dvdrip
Description: Four children try to hold things together and play a family in their isolated prefab house after the death of their parents. As they begin to deteriorate mentally, they hide their mom’s festering corpse in a makeshift concrete sarcophagus.
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Where to start, right? This is a great film, whatever the subgenre, the early 2000s and before that the early 90s was the last era of truly independent cinema. Independent in production and above all in ideas. Director Andrew Birkin was Jane Birkin’s brother, and his own son and niece act here. For me there is poetry… in the memories on the beach, in that cement garden that the father wants to cover up… and can’t. In that book that his sister Sue gave him and Jack reads to whoever will listen… and of course Julie… so well played by Charlotte Gainsbourg… so young and expressing such adult emotions, and so naturally! Whoever wants to listen, let them listen (for me at least) there is poetry in this incest, there is no judgment, “it seems natural to me” they say… and that’s how you live, that’s how you breathe. Without hypocrisy or pretense… it represents the best of the 90s and is at the same time timeless, fitting perfectly into the canons of Freecinema.
Audio commentary is with writer/director Andrew Birkin, actors Andrew Robertson, Ned Birkin and Alice Coulthard, and moderator/film journalist/critic Alan Jones.
I loved this movie…
Brother-Sister Incest is, I think, more appealing to girls. There is scope of leading a happy life together…