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Every Little Thing (1996)

Director: Nicolas Philibert

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The La Borde clinic, a stately chateau surrounded by forest, takes an unorthodox approach to psychiatric care. The clinic's regime resembles that of a laidback boarding school for eccentrics, with pills - although there's no introduction to or analysis of such matters. Rather, we're straight in to an intimate documentary record of the several months the patients and staff take to prepare their summer theatrical production. Sometimes the patients talk - to each other or the camera; other times they just watch, or whistle, or walk slowly across the gravel... or we see trees blowing in the wind. The play (briefly excerpted) looks interesting, but the film as a whole doesn't repay one's patience.

Author: NB

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Technoguy said...

Posted on May 12 2008 22:01 I felt this film was not sufficiently worked on.Shooting staff and patients rehearsing a play was pleasant but no more.There was no rigour in editing or in filming .We see the rehearsal of several scenes,musicians playing interludes or songs,we meet several individual patients outside of rehearsal:the female artist,the male who's acted in several plays,the man with the bushy beard who gets it cut.The staff were among the patients in rehearsal guiding them.I
certainly could see who the staff were although no uniforms were worn.Philibert seems drawn to real people rather than fictional beings,but people who are rehearsing for a role or who have played one in the past
as with 'Back to Normandy'.I feel the fragility of his approach to film-making,day-by-day,does not always pay off(as it did in the 'Normandy' film,where there was a greater complexity of subject matter and inter weaving of themes.

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