Dir: Louis Malle
1990
****
Every great European director has that certain special film. The big ensemble piece, the one that branches youth and old age. Fellini had Amarcord, Rohmer had Claire's Knee, Truffaut had the Wild Child, and so on. These films are few and far between today with only Julie Delpy's Le Skylab springing to mind. It's what Woody Allen is so tirelessly trying to achieve. Irrelevant, farcical, warmhearted nonsense that actually makes a lot of sense. Don't expect to learn much about the 1968 student uprising in Paris as such but instead enjoy a light-hearted and whimsical viewpoint of the country folk. What makes a matriarch, what makes a family and is innocence the same as naivety and are both exclusive to youth. Classic French cinema, the very best of je ne sais quoi.
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