{"id":5490,"date":"2008-04-22T09:19:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T16:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2022-09-11T22:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T05:59:45","slug":"lumiere-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5490","title":{"rendered":"Lumiere (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;We always meet again&#8230; In 16 years of friendship, in spite of births, sickness, travel, films, there always was room for you and me.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Lumiere-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Lumiere-Poster-163x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Lumiere-Poster-163x300.jpg 163w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Lumiere-Poster-69x128.jpg 69w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/Lumiere-Poster.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA renowned actress (Jeanne Moreau) and her friends (Lucia Bose, Caroline Cartier, and Francine Racette) deal with love and career choices in Paris.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Actors and Actresses<\/li>\n<li>Bruno Ganz Films<\/li>\n<li>French Films<\/li>\n<li>Friendship<\/li>\n<li>Jeanne Moreau Films<\/li>\n<li>Keith Carradine Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nJeanne Moreau&#8217;s directorial debut offers more of a meditation on women&#8217;s lives than a compelling narrative; her attempt, a la Robert Altman, to touch upon the travails of a host of interwoven characters necessarily fragments the story, often to its detriment. Moreau herself ultimately emerges as the most sympathetic (and central) character: her story &#8212; thanks in no small part to her luminous performance &#8212; is eminently watchable, and her three love interests &#8212; played by Francois Simon (as her older &#8220;companion&#8221;), Francis Huster, and Bruno Ganz &#8212; are all perfectly cast. Unfortunately, we learn much less about either Cartier (virtually a non-presence) or Bose (a fine Italian actress whose character possesses an intriguing, though unplumbed, back story). Meanwhile, Racette primarily provides comic relief &#8212; as in the film&#8217;s most humorous scene, involving a hilarious Keith Carradine as a horny American who catches sight of Racette in a restaurant and tracks her down ruthlessly; this could be creepy, but Moreau wisely chooses to play it for laughs. Ultimately, <em>Lumiere<\/em>&#8216;s fractured, imbalanced narrative prevents it from being &#8220;must see&#8221;, but Moreau&#8217;s ability to effortlessly evoke a particular milieu &#8212; one she&#8217;s intimately familiar with &#8212; makes it worth viewing at least once. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeanne Moreau as Sarah<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lumiere-moreau.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lumiere-moreau.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5492\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lucia Bose as Laura<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lumiere-lucia-bose.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lumiere-lucia-bose.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5491\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bruno Ganz as Heinrich Grun<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lumiere-ganz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lumiere-ganz.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5493\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Francois Simon as Gregoire<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lumiere-simon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lumiere-simon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5494\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Julienne (Francine Racette) negotiating a romantic encounter with a horny American (Keith Carradine)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lumiere-carradine.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/lumiere-carradine.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5495\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though fans of Moreau&#8217;s work will likely be curious to check it out. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0074826\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1976\/11\/15\/archives\/jeanne-moreaus-lumier-is-dazzlingfilm-on-women-written-and-directed.html\">NY Times Original Review (spoilers alert)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We always meet again&#8230; In 16 years of friendship, in spite of births, sickness, travel, films, there always was room for you and me.&#8221; Synopsis: A renowned actress (Jeanne Moreau) and her friends (Lucia Bose, Caroline Cartier, and Francine Racette) deal with love and career choices in Paris. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Actors and Actresses Bruno Ganz Films French Films Friendship Jeanne Moreau Films Keith Carradine Films Review: Jeanne Moreau&#8217;s directorial debut offers more of a meditation on women&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5490\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87310,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions\/87310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}