Film Details

The final film by the great postmodernist Alain Resnais (his first feature Hiroshima Mon Amour shows Feb. 14-15) is adapted, like two of his others, from a play by Alan Ayckbourn. The movie features an all-star French cast (Sabine Azéma, Hippolyte Girardot, Sandrine Kiberlain, André Dussollier, et al.) and follows three mature couples in an amateur theatrical group who learn that a mutual friend, George, has terminal cancer, forcing them to re-examine their own lives and relationships. Like many Resnais films, this comedy-drama takes place on artificial sets in a theatrical netherworld somewhere between reality and the imagination. “[An] overpoweringly beautiful final film.” –Slant.