Fresh
What reaches us, most of all, are the hidden, unmet longings that keep the film's Parisian characters from finding true happiness.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Private Fears in Public Places
For six strangers in search of love, the City of Lights can be a very lonely place.
2006 · 2h · N/A
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Alain Resnais
Overview
Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the bartender's best patron, an ex-soldier who's lost his moorings while his fiancée looks for a large flat for them; and, the estate agent's much younger sister, who answers personals and waits in cafés with a red flower pinned on her jacket. Will any connect? Can open hearts trump fears?
Director and cast
- Alain Resnais Director
- Sabine Azéma as Charlotte
- Laura Morante as Nicole
- Pierre Arditi as Lionel
- André Dussollier as Thierry
- Lambert Wilson as Dan
- Isabelle Carré as Gaëlle
- Claude Rich as Arthur (voix)
- Michel Vuillermoz as architecte émission TV
- Françoise Gillard as speakerine TV
- Anne Kessler as présentatrice émission TV
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
77%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The tenderness with which Resnais observes their efforts makes for genuinely enchanting entertainment.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
Private Fears suffers from [director Alain] Resnais' inability to open it up and give it the look and pulse of a film.
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Resnais shapes affecting performances from a polished cast. He creates a warm, comic melancholy.
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Resnais has always been an expressionist, using his settings and compositions to evoke the inner states of his characters. Here, tying expressionism to social critique, he becomes an improbable but unmistakable blood brother of Carl Dreyer.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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