Cézanne et moi (2016)

 

The parallel paths of the lives, careers and passionate friendship of post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne and novelist Emile Zola. Both left their hometown to conquer the art scene in Paris.

Well-made biographical drama is focused on the legends' complex and explosive friendship, with fully believable performances by Canet and Gallienne, and enhanced by Jean-Marie Dreujou's remarkable camerawork, but somehow neglects to explore or even explain the protagonists' importance in art and literature history.

Les herbes folles (2009)

 

 

A wallet lost and found opens the door to a romantic adventure.

 

Quirky, almost surreal romantic comedy, elegantly directed; likable, but so slight that it reamins unremarkable.

Maltin**: "Odd, teasing, dreamlike farce from 88-year-old Resnais is an exploration of chance and fate, and the strange, complex relationship that develops between these two characters...but it's curiously unsatisfying."