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Release Date:
27 November 2002 (France) more
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Extraordinary Visceral and well formed, Grandrieux's 'La Vie Nouvelle' more (10 total)

Cast

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Zachary Knighton ... Seymour
Anna Mouglalis ... Melania
Marc Barbé ... Roscoe
Zsolt Nagy ... Boyan
Raoul Dantec ... The french man
Vladimir Zintov ... Hired man
Georgi Kadurin ... The sad man
Simona Huelsemann ... Prostitute 1
Salvador Gueorguiev ... Boyan's man 1
Ivan Velichkov ... Boyan's man 2
Peter Petrov ... Boyan's man 3
Diana Gerova ... Prostitute 2
Bojka Velkova ... Boyan's wife
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A New Life (International: English title)
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102 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Singapore:R21 | France:-16 | Switzerland:18 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud)
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13 out of 15 people found the following review useful.
Extraordinary Visceral and well formed, Grandrieux's 'La Vie Nouvelle', 1 January 2005
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Author: o_cubitt from UK

Grandrieux's 'la Vie Nouvelle' explores one man's obsession and fall into a base and instinctive human. With extraordinary visual flair Grandrieux introduces us to an un-named war torn Eastern European city where Zachary Knighton's soldier on leave falls for a 'dancer' in a sleazy club.

With sparse dialogue and complex narrative we understand the complexities of the soldier's feelings, his love of his closest friend and the simplicity of morals in a city razed to concrete. Grandrieux approach to his camera work and sound design forces you to become involved in the characters, he brings us close to their emotional point of view never allowing us too far back form the action. Indeed at times we are so intimately close to the characters' mindset that it can be hard to not turn away in horror.

indeed, whilst this film is in some ways 'another European art-house film...' it could also be classified as a film in the horror genre, the final sequence involving the soldier's friends is shocking and violent.

This is an important film from a director with plenty to say and who is clearly bold enough to say it differently and with considerable force.

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