Pauline Acquart - Retenez Son Nom

[fish]

I told her not to use that word, honest.
I said "elderly" was much more polite.

Pauline: "I've been through all of Snapsie's garbage but I can't find that piece of paper with Fish's phone number. After that last remark I was sure she'd have thrown it out."







"Nineteen."
I believe you.

[fish]

Mine must have got lost in the post.

Mine too Ian.
Can you make it to Paris in time to cheer me up?

[Ian]

I certainly would to cheer her up.

[DMt.]

Me too, you know, I would also be happy to see a smile on our saturnine sweetheart.

[fish]

Can't remember if the "Les Lendemains" Facebook page was posted before.
Too tired to look. (It's a long flight back from Sverige you know. )
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Les-lendemains/263835160306388




Oh, while I think of it, there's this ....

[DMt.]

Celine S said somewhere, of the character Floriane, that she thinks she has found a friend in Marie, possibly for the first time; and that when "...she discovers that Marie is like everyone else, wanting her, she is utterly disappointed".

She should know, of course, but that was not the primary impression I got from the film, and especially from the cruel scene excerpted above. I saw a manipulative narcissist, playing with Marie's hopeless passion, who to paraphrase the wise words of Adele H, 'quickly crawls back into her shell again' after only briefly emerging when Marie first attempts to disentangle herself.

Mlle. Acquart has been notably silent on the subject of Marie [and also in general, come to think of it], apart from to say that she felt close to the character, that it was "not so long since she was at the age where one discovers one's desires".

3k views coming up! I wonder how many people have come here from Google, seeking more of l'Acquart Glorieux.

[Ian]

Yes, that's how I saw it too.

Cool gif, fish.

If it brings us more folks, all the better.

[snaps]

I saw a manipulative narcissist, playing with Marie's hopeless passion, who to paraphrase the wise words of Adele H, 'quickly crawls back into her shell again' after only briefly emerging when Marie first attempts to disentangle herself.

This is very much the impression I formed. There isn't a lot to go on but she obviously has 'previous history' with other girls (i.e. the banana one in the changing room ) I get the feeling the girls respect her judgment as team captain but don't want to know her socially. This comes across on the coach home from the competition. They don't seek to engage her in their wooppeee singing and team celebration. Ima sure that her presentation of the medal, draping it round Marie's neck is more of a calculated insult to her team homies than intended as an expression of affection for Marie. She uses other girls (and even boys) as set dressings to make herself look better.

I think the clinching non-verbal scene comes right at the end, when we see Floriane dancing by herself, and even cracks a smile, oblivious to the fact that even the boys are studiously ignoring her, as her reputation as a *c wolfchild unt* goes before her.

[DMt.]

her reputation as a *cwolfchildunt* goes before her

They have sick power relations in common, that fo' sho'...

Tell you something else as well...Pauline and Adele both seem, from their public birthdays, to have Moon in Libra. Given that the Moon is how we feel, that shared position has to have been useful for them both in making this movie, and brought a certain unusual depth to it.

[fish]

I agree with the "manipulative narcissist" description. She knows she's very physically attractive and plays on that to get her way with virually everyone.

Then again, her character is only 15 or so and has a lot of maturing to do. Hopefully Floriane starts treating people better as she grows older.

[DMt.]

Mmmye-e-es, hopefully. But...

"...The real selling point here is Acquart. Her face is just wonderfully expressive. Early on she conveys her lust for Floriane so powerfully it is as if you can feel the tingle in her loins right with her. You see her pain when moments of hope are dashed. Her openness makes it easy to be along on the ride with her emotionally...."

[The Movie Review Warehouse]

[fish]

Well said Movie Review Warehouse.

I just like to think about other people in a film as well.
To me it seems a natural progression in character development to wonder where they came from and what will happen in their future, particularly as they relate to who I see as the pivotal person ... as you say, "l'Acquart Glorieux".

[DMt.]

Even from that distance, Pauline looks...well...not happy...


"The Aftermath: youth, politics, radicalism.
The aftermath is an unusual film in the landscape of French cinema. On the one hand, the ambition of this film is to be part of a social and political thought, to embody the legitimate concern of some of the youth, to restore the disarray in a society where differences widening, to discuss his anger at the policy. But if this film is incurred, it does not mean activist, it passes no judgment and no offers, of course, no easy solution. The character, Audrey, embodies the impossibility of recklessness in today's society and makes tangible the difficulty of finding a place when you are not prepared. On the other hand, the film, funded with support from the advances on receipts and Brittany, is one of very few French features initiated outside Paris. It is produced, directed, filmed in Brittany and will be finalized and mounted (mixing, calibration) in AGM Factory installed in Rennes last few months."

[fish]

Is that a new film, The Aftermath?
With Pauline?
Tell me more, tell me more.

Hardly any of the Les Lendemains pics seem to have Pauline in focus. She's always lurking in the background somewhere. Or even waiting for a bus.

[DMt.]

It's the same film. And Pauline is not the lead

I have this horrible notion that making NdP with Celine and the other girls was a total gas and a blast, but that everything she's been involved in since has been a different world entirely, one that's much meaner and more dominating or exploitative. I do hope I'm wrong.

"People with no experience of the music industry tend to think that the film industry is the ne plus ultra of vicious, asshole-chewing, hyena-like behaviour..." - William Gibson, Spook Country