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Attila Marcel

  • 20132013
  • GG
  • 1h 46m
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Attila Marcel (2013)
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Paul, thirty or so, lives in a Paris apartment with his aunts, two old aristocrats who have raised him since he was two and who dream of seeing him become a virtuoso pianist.Paul, thirty or so, lives in a Paris apartment with his aunts, two old aristocrats who have raised him since he was two and who dream of seeing him become a virtuoso pianist.Paul, thirty or so, lives in a Paris apartment with his aunts, two old aristocrats who have raised him since he was two and who dream of seeing him become a virtuoso pianist.
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    • Sylvain Chomet
    • Sylvain Chomet
  • Stars
    • Guillaume Gouix
    • Anne Le Ny
    • Bernadette Lafont
    • Sylvain Chomet
    • Sylvain Chomet
  • Stars
    • Guillaume Gouix
    • Anne Le Ny
    • Bernadette Lafont
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    Guillaume Gouix
    Guillaume Gouix
    • Paul…
    Anne Le Ny
    Anne Le Ny
    • Mme Proust
    Bernadette Lafont
    Bernadette Lafont
    • Tante Annie
    Hélène Vincent
    Hélène Vincent
    • Tante Anna
    Luis Rego
    • M. Coelho
    Fanny Touron
    • Anita
    Kea Kaing
    • Michelle
    Jean-Claude Dreyfus
    Jean-Claude Dreyfus
    • M. Kruzinsky
    Vincent Deniard
    • Gégé
    Cyril Couton
    • Le docteur
    Philippe Soutan
    • Le concierge
    Guilhem Pellegrin
    • M. Chassepot de Pissy
    Jean-Paul Solal
    • M. Pineton de Chambrun
    Jean-Pol Brissart
    Jean-Pol Brissart
    • M. Berkoff
    Elsa Davoine
    • Tante Annie jeune
    Laetitia Poulalion
    • Tante Anna jeune
    Michaël Vander-Meiren
    • Le bidasse
    Jérôme Le Paulmier
    • Jérôme (cours de danse)
      • Sylvain Chomet
      • Sylvain Chomet
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      Madame Proust helps Paul remember his childhood using madeleines dipped in herbal tea. Marcel Proust's most famous work, Remembrance of Things Past, begins with involuntary memory brought about the same way.
    • Quotes

      Mme Proust: I don't believe in your heaven! I'm a Buddhist. I'm a Buddhist and screw you. Heaven is right here and you're screwing it up!Just read the damn toilet door! "Please leave this place as clean as it was when you found it!". You treat your crapper better than the planet. Be careful. One day, the non-violent will get violent! And that's going to hurt!

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      Features Barbarella (1968)

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    7/10
    Entertaining Comedy-Drama About Self-Revelation
    The basic scenario for Sylvain Chomet's comedy-drama is reminiscent of that of SHINE (1994). A young man, the eponymous central character (Guillaume Goulx) in his early thirties demonstrates a higher-than-average talent for piano playing, but does not speak. Looked after by a pair of overbearing aunts (Bernadette Lafont, Hélène Vincent), he has little or no outlet for his talents. He discovers in the apartment below him an eccentric woman, Mme. Proust (Anne Le Ny), who administers a concoction to him, enabling him to indulge in fantasies as well as uncover the mysteries of his past.

    The plot is a straightforward one, dramatizing the ways in which we often deal with trauma by repressing it. Attila Marcel's concoction is nothing more than a means by which he learns to reconnect with it. What happened might have been unpleasant, but in the end he has to learn how to deal with it. Mme. Proust eventually passes away, and the apartment is taken over by someone else; but the experience has proved cathartic.

    What renders Chomet's film so entertaining are the settings, a series of suitable visual metaphors for the lives Marcel pursues. The apartment he shares with his aunts is perpetually spick-and- span: everything in the right place so that Attila can cope with life around him. The aunts believe that this is the best thing for him; as the film unfolds, we understand how they have imposed their will on him, as a way of compensating for their own spinsterhood. The seedy dance studio, where Attila plays the piano for young girls just beginning their careers, is both bare and impersonal; the only noteworthy item of furniture being the piano. This sums up the aridity of the young man's life; it's hardly surprising that he does not want to speak. And there is Mme. Proust's apartment, a positive riot of fauna and flora, with tatty furniture and a strange visitor M. Cuelho (Luis Rego) who always seems to be waking up from a trance. The confusion of her apartment expresses Attila's state of mind; it is only through the concoction that such confusions can be straightened out.

    The film comes to a predictable conclusion as we discover precisely what happened to the young man's parents. Perhaps he does not need to take the concoction any more; he seems to be 'cured,' at least temporarily. But director Chomet suggests that, if he wanted to take it once more, there would be nothing wrong. Even though it might be comprised of illegal drugs, it has a beneficial effect in the end.
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      • October 30, 2013 (France)
      • France
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      • Pathé (France)
      • French
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      • Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France
    • Production companies
      • Eurowide Film Production
      • Pathé
      • France 3 Cinéma
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    • 1 hour 46 minutes
      • Color
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