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La petite Chartreuse

  • 20052005
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
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La petite Chartreuse (2005)
Drama
Eight-year-old Eva and her mother have a very positive CHILD-TO-CHILD-RELATION. The mother is incapable of mature behaviour when problems arise. When the mother forgets to fetch Eva at schoo... Read allEight-year-old Eva and her mother have a very positive CHILD-TO-CHILD-RELATION. The mother is incapable of mature behaviour when problems arise. When the mother forgets to fetch Eva at school in her car, Eva does not know the way home. Panicking and crying she just runs and is ov... Read allEight-year-old Eva and her mother have a very positive CHILD-TO-CHILD-RELATION. The mother is incapable of mature behaviour when problems arise. When the mother forgets to fetch Eva at school in her car, Eva does not know the way home. Panicking and crying she just runs and is overrun by a car. The driver is obviously innocent. He is a second-hand bookseller (Etienne)... Read all
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    • Jean-Pierre Denis
    • Jean-Pierre Denis(scenario)
    • Pierre Péju(book)
    • Yvon Rouvé(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Olivier Gourmet
    • Marie-Josée Croze
    • Bertille Noël-Bruneau
    • Jean-Pierre Denis
    • Jean-Pierre Denis(scenario)
    • Pierre Péju(book)
    • Yvon Rouvé(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Olivier Gourmet
    • Marie-Josée Croze
    • Bertille Noël-Bruneau
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    • 4User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Marie-Josée Croze in La petite Chartreuse (2005)
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    Bertille Noël-Bruneau in La petite Chartreuse (2005)
    Olivier Gourmet and Bertille Noël-Bruneau in La petite Chartreuse (2005)
    Marie-Josée Croze and Bertille Noël-Bruneau in La petite Chartreuse (2005)
    Bertille Noël-Bruneau in La petite Chartreuse (2005)
    Marie-Josée Croze and Jean-Pierre Denis in La petite Chartreuse (2005)
    Marie-Josée Croze in La petite Chartreuse (2005)
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    Jean-Pierre Denis in La petite Chartreuse (2005)
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    Olivier Gourmet
    Olivier Gourmet
    • Etienne Vollard
    Marie-Josée Croze
    Marie-Josée Croze
    • Pascale Blanchot
    Bertille Noël-Bruneau
    Bertille Noël-Bruneau
    • Eva Blanchot
    Marisa Borini
    • Anna
    Yves Jacques
    Yves Jacques
    • Baldi
    Elisabeth Macocco
    Elisabeth Macocco
    • Consoeur, brocanteuse
    • (as Elizabeth Macocco)
    Claude Koener
    • Médecin institution
    Marie-Claude Vermorel
    • Mireille
    Jean-Michel Noirey
    • L'enquêteur
    Lison Riess
    • Infirmière hôpital
    Francine Lorin-Blazquez
    • Infirmière institution
    Philippe Saïd
    • Le réceptionniste
    Francis Frappat
    • Le serveur de la discothèque
    Philippe Chabrier
    • Serveur bowling
    Rémi Thiberge
    • Guide montagne
    Alain Fert
    • Chirurgien hôpital
    Thibault Roux
    • Jeune policier
    Christian Taponard
    • Client librairie 1 ('du Bellay')
      • Jean-Pierre Denis
      • Jean-Pierre Denis(scenario)
      • Pierre Péju(book)
      • Yvon Rouvé(scenario)
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    Am I Weakening?
    I'm not sure there's a translation yet, so how available it may be to other English speakers, but I've made a point of reading Péju's "La Petite Chartreuse" before commenting the film based on it.

    The read, two months and a half after seeing the film, was a bizarre experience. Despite myself, I entered the novel with expectations. I entered it anticipating its conclusion. It begins in what I think of as L'Etranger mode. Not just Camus' one, but three self-absorbed-yet-reacting-to-their-environs characters—Eva, her mother, and memory-savant Vollard—gravitate toward the accident that will irrevocably change each. This wasn't so different. Denis and his cinematographer had attempted something like it. I read on.

    Pieces fell in: the mother's psychological and physical absence, her incompetence, prompting Vollard's reluctant yet ever-increasing movement toward Eva. The film's mother had been so much easier to forgive, even while blaming her. Is it harder to deny face, voice, and eyes than their more rational representation in prose? In prose as on screen, Vollard versus Eva and her ailment amounts to "mutisme contra mutisme" (p. 253, Gallimard, 2002). Other things challenged my memory. What's this 1968 strikes stuff? Who's this narrator who becomes an "I" for a single chapter, then recuses himself in favor of all too omniscient third-person? Did the film's bookshop burn? I don't think so, but… Was there bungee jumping? Maybe. As the novel closed, I grew panicky. How can what-has-to-happen happen in the eighth an inch of pages left?! In a sixteeth?!!

    The answer is that Péju's prose didn't allow to happen my film-born what-has-to-happen. The filmmakers, while keeping and using nearly all Péju's dark elements, wrested from them a better feeling, even a heroic finish. Maybe it's just that I'm a smalltime climber, so felt almost as if I knew the snowy col the film's Vollard crosses at last, but as I traversed the whole novel I felt I was climbing to a sort of redemption.

    The novel closes darkly against the light of the film that succeeds it. I tend to hate bogus film endings, movie endings. Why not this time, this one? Am I weakening?
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    • Jul 11, 2005

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      • February 23, 2005 (France)
      • France
      • French
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      • Apprieu, Isère, France
    • Production companies
      • Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP)
      • Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
      • France 2 Cinéma
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