CINEMA SCAPE: You Ain’t Seen Nothin Yet by Alan Resnais. In Theaters June 7, 2013

CINEMA SCAPE: You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet by Alan Resnais. In Theaters June 7, 2013

You Ain’t Seen Nothin Yet

Lambert Wilson, Anne Consigny, Hippolyte Girardot, Sabine Azéma, Mathieu Almaric, Pierre Arditi, Michel Piccol

Synopsis

Based on two works by the playwright Jean Anouilh, You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet opens with a who’s-who of French acting royalty (including Mathieu Amalric, Michel Piccoli and frequent Resnais muse Sabine Azema) being summoned to the reading of a late playwright’s last will and testament. There, the playwright (Denis Podalydes) appears on a TV screen from beyond the grave and asks his erstwhile collaborators to evaluate a recording of an experimental theater company performing his Eurydice—a play they themselves all appeared in over the years. But as the video unspools, instead of watching passively, these seasoned thespians begin acting out the text alongside their youthful avatars, looking back into the past rather like mythic Orpheus himself.

@Apple

 

PREVIEW: Nicole Kidman for Madame Figaro France, June 2013

LOOKBOOK: Serpent & the Swan Spring 2013