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Information
- A.k.a.
- The Things of Life
- Year
- 1970
- Runtime
- 89 min.
- Director
- Claude Sautet
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rating *
- 7.7
- Votes *
- 3,148
- Checks
- 460
- Favs
- 45
- Dislikes
- 6
- Favs/checks
- 9.8% (1:10)
- Favs/dislikes
- 8:1
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MilenaFlaherty
This film was remade in 1994 as Intersection. This one is better. 5 years 5 months ago -
Siskoid
Les choses de la vie (The Things of Life) is Sautet's first hit, and also his first collaboration with Michel Piccoli and Romy Schneider, centring on a car accident that's dissected in the cinematography, just as we'll dissect the events leading up to it. Piccoli is an outwardly content man - he loves his girlfriend, is on good terms with his ex-wife, has a family who loves him, and he's not exactly suffering on the financial side of things either. So why was he being so reckless on the road that day? Does it have anything to do with his ambivalence towards commitment? Sautet is just incredibly good at building tension even in a relationship drama (it only FEELS like a thriller by the way he approaches the subject). Every time Piccoli is on the road - and he often is - you start getting worried. And even in the material set after the accident, there are reasons to wonder and worry. It's very well done, and examines, in the final analysis just how human bonds are forged and through what processes, and sometimes perhaps only through a kind of reckless abandon. 1 year 1 month ago
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