Neapolitan director Pietro Marcello, who made the transition from high-profile docs to fiction with his Naples-set 2019 adaptation of Jack London’s Martin Eden – that made a splash on the international art-house scene – has now tackled a France-set tale inspired by a Russian novel in his new film “Scarlet” (see review) that mixes fable, musical, historical and magical realism elements.
The pic’s central character is Juliette, played by promising newcomer Juliette Jouan, an orphan girl raised by a community of women and by her father Raphaël, a burly soldier who returned from the First World War to find that his adored wife after giving birth had passed away.
Marcello spoke to Variety about what he calls his first ‘feminine’ film. Excerpts.
There is a strong sense of matriarchy in this film. You’ve underlined its feminine aspect.
I’ve always made films that are quite masculine. “Martin Eden” certainly was.
The pic’s central character is Juliette, played by promising newcomer Juliette Jouan, an orphan girl raised by a community of women and by her father Raphaël, a burly soldier who returned from the First World War to find that his adored wife after giving birth had passed away.
Marcello spoke to Variety about what he calls his first ‘feminine’ film. Excerpts.
There is a strong sense of matriarchy in this film. You’ve underlined its feminine aspect.
I’ve always made films that are quite masculine. “Martin Eden” certainly was.
- 5/18/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
A feisty trifle charting the misadventures of three French women looking for romance or distraction among the open-for-suggestions film-industry fellows at the Locarno Film Festival, Sophie Letourneur's brief comedy is distinguished by bristling comic performances, from both the women and their quarry, especially in a too-long public makeout embarrassment between Camille Genaud and one guy that her character—named Camille, just as Letourneur's is Sophie and Carole Le Page's is Carole—doesn't want to seem too into. "I'm sorry I frenched you," she says later, according to the subtitles, which is something of a revelation: The French use the verb "to french"? Their comic but usually not hilarious travails are flashed back to from a stagey present, where the women reminisce abo...
- 7/10/2013
- Village Voice
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