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Souvenirs intimes (1999)
Tour De Force by Pascale Bussières; the male monster can start over as the female Hera can as well.
From monsters & catalysts, to maternal stalwarts, to kindness conquers all. What can go horribly wrong on the bitter end of unrequited young love is developed in this story. How we can take tragedy & turn it into the biggest lesson ever! How innocent devotion of a very kind young man, cleanses many years of a hellish determination to pay back with the same medicine even when, well, this film is a must! NO spoilers here! I recommend Souvenirs Intimes with NO reservations! Intense drama, ripping emotions, stunning Pascale Bussières in a magnificent performance, excellent cinema, thick with subtext, I wish a lot more people could hear about this one!
Lost and Delirious (2001)
A Must for Cinephiles & Romantics
The five leading actresses were excellent. The teachers portrayed by Jackie Burroughs & Mimi Kuzyk were much more important to the core of the exuberance, inspiration, indignation, frustration, all in one fused mesh of adolescent quest for identity, of their young students, than the other comments have mentioned. The acting all the way down the credits was remarkable which means the director was exceptional. I am definitely going to see other movies by Lea Pool as suggested in these comments! I have not read Wives Of Bath by Susan Swan which the film was based on, so having said that, I confess that I still sense that the ending was not what most of us perceived it to be?!? I am the very witness to how real Lost & Delirious was:... Although the poetry may have struck some viewers as dreamy &/or excessive, it is nothing short of a radical dream when you are a Catholic 15 or so year old girl & in love with another girl. The more you both perceive yourselves to be young women, the more the world around you suspects all too keenly the real nature of your passion, the more they call you immature. You are both still in High School & cannot actually move in together in the effort of having your very own rules while you must abide by the adults' code of conduct. The same adults who have gone hopelessly mad by taking every chance they get to undermine & chastise the true love so miraculously found in the flesh of the inseparable two best friends!!!! This, my dear movie lovers, did indeed happen to me, so I know it must have happened to a lot of other teenage girls/young women... Jessica Pare was, in my humble opinion, the best performance of the three young leads. She was impeccable with excruciating details so brilliantly brought to life, we all were dying to slap her out of it, as we all surrendered to Piper's character propelled by the impetus that Jessica provided like nobody else would have done unless you start considering THE TOP NAMES EVER for that kind of an extraordinary performance. Yes, Piper & Mischa were as solid as you could wish for, but it was Jessica Pare's rendition of Victoria "Torie" Moller, the flawless cohesion that Mary & Paulie required. Just brilliant!!!! I emphatically recommend this movie to be shared with family, lovers & friends, all teachers & School Directors included! Oh, & yes, all I could think of was killing myself at the time of my fall with my first lover, when I was 17 or so, & oh, yes, it was indeed my Mother who saved me from myself...!!!!!!