A Paris Education (Mes Provinciales)
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Synopsis
Etienne (Andranic Manet), a serious and impressionable shaggy-haired young cinephile, leaves behind his steady girlfriend (Diane Rouxel) in Lyon to study film in Paris. Settling into a dingy flat with a rotating cast of roommates, he immerses himself in a bohemian world of artists, intellectuals, and fellow film geeks who excitedly share their passion for Bresson, Ford, and obscure Russian directors. It's a seemingly idyllic life of the mind - until more complicated matters of the flesh, as well as jealous creativity, intrude. Shooting in timeless black and white and interweaving references to philosophy, music, and cinema - from Pascal to Mahler to Parajanov - Jean Paul Civeyrac conjures a bittersweet ode to the heady days of student life that evokes the films of the French New Wave
Cast
- Andranic Manet
- Diane Rouxel
- Jenna Thiam
- Gonzague Van Bervesseles
- Corentin Fila
- Nicolas Bouchaud
- Charlotte Van Bervesseles
- Sophie Verbeeck
- Christine Brücher
- Grigori Manoukov
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Metacritic
Aug 30, 2018
Mr. Civeyrac leads Étienne into anxious imitations of the past, and the possibility of making art fueled by the present never materializes.
Teo Bugbee
The New York Times
Aug 28, 2018
As anachronistic as A Paris Education may seem (a running time of 136 minutes doesn’t always help matters, either), there’s a conviction to the storytelling that can’t be denied, and no matter what your tastes are, it’s hard not to be moved by Etienne’s struggle to find his voice amid so much doubt and disillusion.
Jordan Mintzer
The Hollywood Reporter
Aug 28, 2018
The shaded black-and-white cinematography and the dialectical romances mimic the styles and moods of nineteen-seventies French classics without their intimacy, rage, or historical scope.
Richard Brody
The New Yorker
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