Fin août, début septembre (1998)

Director:

Olivier Assayas

Writer:

Olivier Assayas (written by)

Release Date:

10 February 1999 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and...

Plot Keywords:

Lover | Friend | Love | Novelist | Urination

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Mathieu Amalric	...	Gabriel
Virginie Ledoyen	...	Anne
François Cluzet	...	Adrien
Jeanne Balibar	...	Jenny
Alex Descas	...	Jérémie
Arsinée Khanjian	...	Lucie
Mia Hansen-Løve	...	Véra
Nathalie Richard	...	Maryelle
Eric Elmosnino	...	Thomas
Olivier Cruveiller	...	Axel
Jean-Baptiste Malartre	...	Editeur
André Marcon	...	Hattou
Elisabeth Mazev	...	Visiteuse de l'appartement
Olivier Py	...	Visiteur de l'appartement
Jean-Baptiste Montagut	...	Joseph Costa

Also Known As:

Late August, Early September (USA)
Les regrets (France) (working title)

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-12 | France:U | Singapore:M18 | Spain:13 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15

Company:

Dacia Films

Soundtrack:

Contre le sexisme

What can I say?

Late August, Early September is a movie that will stay with me because it didn't make me obsessed over it right after i saw it. In fact, as time passed, I realized 'gee, the last best time I had with a movie was Fin Aout". So I saw it again, took a deep breathe, and realized it really was a rare, marvelous movie that I feel lucky and nourished to see.

I'm suprised that noyone was asking where the music in the movie came from. Well, in case you just saw it and wondered really hard like i did, all the music that was thematiclly featured are by a south African music group called Ali Farka Toure, all the songs are from their album "The Source", and the songs are---(for the opening and the motorbike) "Goye Kur", (for Virginie Ledoyen's threesome scene) "Hawa Dolo", (for Vera's theme, the closing and many parts, the essential theme) "Cinquante Six". I'm utterly moved at seeing Olivier Assayas accomplishment. The lingering, graceful, and intricate portrayal of modern people, throughly, relevantly modern. His water-color painting, which it's moods unexpectedly stay with you after seeing the film. The chosen characters and the bold realities of their conceptions sort of leave me caring about things again. The film showed me processes of natural acceptances and natural complications in life, not mimicking it, just tip toeing through it, yet the character's lives seems to always be existing and experiencing itself in between or before the time frames of the film and so on, so forth. I took that swift, bitter-sweet feeling inside me and kept thinking about the beautiful credits. I kept feeling pleased at how I get to see charcters having been so tormented but keeping so much in, a state that uncannily comforts a lot of my trivial, constant, day to day basis state of mind. Assayas is an auteur, in a really modern sense. He writes his own things, which guarantees his vitality. I have utter faith in him and I'm grateful that his films are made, just there, living.