Sans toit ni loi (1985)
This film won the 42nd Venice Film Golden Lion Award in 1985.
The film tells the story of a homeless woman. The heroine is a homeless woman, and her story begins by the sea. After the heroine came out of the sea, she got into a man's car. But the two were not speculating, and the heroine got out of the car and walked. The heroine walks around on foot, finds a job fixing a car, and has a relationship with her boss. Later, the heroine meets a male tramp, and the two live in an ancient castle. The relatives of the castle janitor work as a maid in a wealthy family, and her boyfriend has nothing to do all day, and he also has the idea of the castle. Late one night, this man led the crowd to loot the castle and knocked out the homeless who found them. After the tramp woke up, the heroine was gone. After taking a ride for a while, the heroine came to a farmhouse and met a master of philosophy who is a farmer. The peasants are kind enough to provide the heroine with housing and farmland, so that she can be self-reliant, but the heroine will only steal the peasant's ready-made cheese. A few days later, farmers kicked him out. The heroine continued on the road, and soon met a female agronomy expert, who was very kind to provide the heroine with food, and then let her leave. A few days later, the female expert found out in her conscience that she thought she should not let the heroine go, so she asked her students to help find it. At this time, the heroine met a migrant worker from Tunisia, and he also warmly invited her to work and live together. But after the other workers came back, they did not agree with the heroine to stay here, so the heroine had to leave. During the period, the heroine also donated blood once. Another journey, the heroine is discovered by the relatives of the gatekeeper, and she hopes that the heroine can accompany her through loneliness. However, the heroine soon mixed with the old man at home and laughed at everything, and the relatives of the gatekeeper kicked her out in a rage. In this way, the heroine met a group of people at the station, took drugs and got drunk, which made the nephew of the old man in the mansion, the student of the female expert, discover her. However, this man did not intend to tell the female expert. The female expert student appeared at the station because the castle lost something and found out that it was related to the gatekeeper's relative boyfriend, so the gatekeeper's relative was kicked out, and the man just came to see the woman. Finally, after wandering for a while, the heroine froze to death in the farmland in the countryside.
This is a thought-provoking movie. The content of the film is relatively simple, it just describes the heroine's experience like a quick glance, but the process is thought-provoking. In my opinion, the film does not describe the life of a hippie, nor does it reflect social reality, but rather what the Master of Philosophy said in the film: Walking with freedom and loneliness, you get the maximum freedom, and you get the maximum Lonely. This is the core theme of the film. As for the various experiences of the heroine, the various people she meets on the road, etc., are not the main performance of the film.
There is no need to say more about how the film of walking alone and free is expressed. Because the movie emphasizes this kind of loneliness from the very first picture - freezing to death in the wild. Therefore, it can be summed up in one sentence: the movie not only truly reflects the social reality, but also interprets the theme through a cold and icy picture style. It is a relatively good movie. The only regret is that the movie is not particularly good, I slept for nearly 30 minutes while watching it.
As for the theme expressed by the film, I think it is very profound. Loneliness is an unacceptable pain in human nature, and it is also something that needs to be avoided in human existence. But when loneliness takes over a person, that person will eventually perish. Someone once said: Humans are social animals, and they are absolutely right. People who live alone without the crowd will be forced to collapse by loneliness until they lose hope of life. This is true of the heroine of this film, and the same is true of the male protagonist in "Wild Survival", they are all living examples. In short, this film excavates a fact that is close to the truth from the depths of human nature, which makes people memorable.
Film shooting is relatively ordinary, regular shooting, and there is nothing too unique. However, the music in the film is very depressing, in line with the emotional atmosphere of the film, and it looks and sounds very cold.
The actors are relatively normal. Although the heroine Sandrine Bonnaire portrayed a stray girl very realistically in the film and won the heroine award, but there is nothing outstanding, she feels like a confused face. Perhaps this is the true portrayal of a homeless woman?
in conclusion. The themes are deep and thought-provoking, but the plot is tedious and sleepy, but it's a movie worth remembering nonetheless. In addition, the stories about thefts and mansions in the film are superfluous and meaningless.
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2012-11-13
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