Staying Vertical

Original title: Rester vertical

2016
Unrated
1h 38m

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5.9/10

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Leo (Damien Bonnard), a blocked filmmaker seeking inspiration in the French countryside for an overdue script, begins an affair with a shepherdess (India Hair), with whom he almost immediately has a child.

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A film maker has to raise a child by himself whilst looking for an inspiration for his new film.A film maker has to raise a child by himself whilst looking for an inspiration for his new film.A film maker has to raise a child by himself whilst looking for an inspiration for his new film.

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5.9/10

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Alain Guiraudie films sex very frontally and the first love scene, with this vulva in the foreground, obviously evokes Courbet's The Origin of the World. Asked about her nude scenes, India Hair said: "When Alain read the script, he asked Damien Bonnard and me what we were willing to do and what we thought was more complicated. What I was afraid of was to show an intimacy of my sexuality. There, I would have had difficulties to let myself go. Alain told us that we had to choreograph what we were going to do. That allows us to take some distance. And then I had seen 'L'Inconnu du lac' and I had found it so sublime! We worked some scenes with a double, others without, it was up to us to choose."

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4/10

Waiting for Inspiration

Seen at the Viennale 2016: A guy loses his creativity and drifts loose through his best years. But to be honest, we do not know whether this guy was creative in the first place. We can only assume that, because it might be logical. Maybe the whole movie is just some sort of insider-joke for filmmakers. I liked the sexual freedom of this movie, but could not follow the story itself. Many actions of the main guy seemed to happen out of nothing, without the wish of doing something with aim. Without any hint, why the guy is doing what he is doing I (and my brain) was benumbed. Maybe the script writer and the director of that movie had the same problem as the guy. No aim for the movie, no direction. Such is life. Sometimes.