Rotten
It's more memorable for various isolated witticisms and images than it is as a coherent whole. And its flightier touches can be deadly.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Overview
In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.
Director and cast
- Alain Resnais Director
- Vittorio Gassman as Walter Guarini
- Ruggero Raimondi as le Comte Michel Forbek
- Fanny Ardant as Livia Cerasquier
- Geraldine Chaplin as Nora Winkle
- Sabine Azéma as Élisabeth Rousseau
- Pierre Arditi as Robert Dufresne
- Robert Manuel as Georges Leroux
- Martine Kelly as Claudine Obertin
- Samson Fainsilber as Zoltán Forbek
- Véronique Silver Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten
The material manages at once to be both precious and dry, the staging is unprofitably claustrophobic, and the structure less ingenious than arbitrary.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Resnais speculates on the utopian dream that life is infinitely perfectable, that human chaos, despair and horror can be spirited or educated out of existence. There are two stories, to correspond to each of these possibilities.
Time Out
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