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Absences Répétées - Movie Club 2018
Topic Started: Mar 12 2018, 06:30 PM (345 Views)
Mauries
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Absences Répétées [Repeated Absences]

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1972 | 72' | Guy Gilles (25 August 1938 - 3 February 1996)

Don't have much time for a write up, but I was hoping to find some interesting interviews/reviews/etc instead. Unfortunately it seems that everything that's ever written about Gilles is in French. If you master the French language, than you can find lots of information on http://www.guygilles.com. If anyone finds anything interesting in English, please share.
It's maybe interesting to note that Gilles had a relationship with Jeanne Moreau, which might have been an inspiration for Absences Répétées.

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I found this quote in a letterboxd review though (don't know the source):

"Repeated Absences is total refusal. In front of a world that is worn out, tired, it is the refusal to live, the stage above the revolt. At the cut side it was revolt, Repeated Absences that is what Marguerite Duras calls the point zero. That is, the moment when one understands that one must destroy everything to begin again. And I was very touched, upset, by the vision of boys and girls I know and whose refusal happens to death."
- Guy Gilles
Edited by Mauries, Mar 12 2018, 10:14 PM.
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Heads up that there don't seem to be English subs included in the download, unless I'm just missing them.
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they should be included in the .mkv (they are on my computer)
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The only subtitles that came bundled in with my copy are closed-caption French titles for the francophone hearing-impaired.
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Ah, I see - they were lying around somewhere in the same folder on my computer and automatically imported. I'll re-upload immediately. (edit: done)
Edited by Mauries, Mar 13 2018, 09:16 AM.
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Is it a bad sign that I kept thinking of the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend song "Sexy French Depression" while watching this? It's practically a prototypical example of the sort of French movie that that song is parodying. Mind you, I'm a sucker for that sort of French movie, so I enjoyed it.

Stray thought: there are a handful of still images with words written on them in cursive that are crazy similar to what Godard was doing in the late 60s and early 70s, even down to the writing style. There's one that's a picture of a face with the word "visages" and "images" on it that's especially Godardian, with the wordplay and the obsession with the relationship between words and images.
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There's not a whole lot of daylight between this one and Au Pan Coupe, is there? Except for the heroin, I guess... I hope Gilles isn't a one-trick pony, making the same movie over and over. Especially if it's a movie about his own unhappy love life. (Hugo Haas, anyone?)

I liked it well enough, though; it accomplished everything it set out to do.

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