The Sanguinaires

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01/21/2011 Early Laurent Cantet (who is a BOSS filmmaker!). A seemingly straightforward story about a group of families and friends who take a vacation together to an isolated island lighthouse over the New Years break during the year 2000, to escape the hullaballo, where there is to be no TV, Radio, phones, etc. Just relaxation. Turns out there is no escape to an idyllic paradise. Conflict ensues with the young caretaker who has a radio and goes off by boat during the night, presumably to the mainland to party. Family conflict emerges, and whole layers of people and society unfold in this miniature version of the larger world. This film is clearly Cantet: slow french-style drama, that happens to be endlessly fascinating, the layers of what's happening just keep emerging, and the metaphors you can draw from it are really intriguing. It has that sort of depth that is also vague enough because it doesn't make the classic story-mistake of explaining what's happening. Things just unfold, and keep unfolding, as they do in the endless mess of real life. This film is hard to find, and the DVD totally blows, but if you are a fan of Laurent Cantet (and you SHOULD BE!) you should definitely check this out. See more 10/04/2010 An early film of Laurent Cantet, the later winner of the Palme d'or for "Entre les murs" ("The Class") - not very convincing, and quite predictable, too. For me his best film is still "Vers le sud" ("Heading South") See more 03/06/2009 Like François, I've failed at Utopia. More than once even. See more 11/07/2008 probably Cantet's worst film. See more 01/14/2007 [url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sanguinaires/dvd.php?select=2"][img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/38/173938.jpg[/img][/url] Finally a Laurent Cantet film I can do without. Boring film about boring people on a boring island on the eve of 2000. Not much to say besides "don't waste your time". See more Read all reviews

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