Julie Delpy's second directorial effort is a garrulous, charming argument against Sarkozy's joyless economic crusade
A pleasure to have this on UK release: Julie Delpy's 2011 film Skylab is her second as a director, a lovely, easygoing movie with garrulity and charm, giving us that quintessentially French image of the sun-dappled al fresco family lunch. It is a nostalgic period piece from 1979, when the French public were briefly galvanised by reports that Nasa's Skylab research rocket could be about to crash somewhere in western France. Delpy plays Anna, bringing her children to a colossal family get-together at the ramshackle Brittany house of her mother, played by Emmanuelle Riva – admirers of Haneke's Amour might be relieved to see her safe and well in this gentler film. There is every sort of intrigue and gossip: a virtual week's worth of activity compressed into a single day. Delpy's film suggests that France has lost big-hearted family values,...
A pleasure to have this on UK release: Julie Delpy's 2011 film Skylab is her second as a director, a lovely, easygoing movie with garrulity and charm, giving us that quintessentially French image of the sun-dappled al fresco family lunch. It is a nostalgic period piece from 1979, when the French public were briefly galvanised by reports that Nasa's Skylab research rocket could be about to crash somewhere in western France. Delpy plays Anna, bringing her children to a colossal family get-together at the ramshackle Brittany house of her mother, played by Emmanuelle Riva – admirers of Haneke's Amour might be relieved to see her safe and well in this gentler film. There is every sort of intrigue and gossip: a virtual week's worth of activity compressed into a single day. Delpy's film suggests that France has lost big-hearted family values,...
- 10/24/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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