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Bookmark this pageThe Wimbledon Stage (2001)
Director: Mathieu Amalric
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From Time Out Film Guide
Leading French actor Amalric's second feature as director, which he adapted by him from a novel by Daniele del Giudice, sends his wife Balibar on an improvised search for the life of a writer, as recounted by friends and colleagues. The destination is Trieste, which is protrayed as provisional, ambiguous, meditative and 'other', like a mobile version of much contemporary photography, emphasising the quiet and transitional spaces. An unashamedly European picture of ideas and mood, it's a beautiful, open and enigmatic fable, and it's puzzling title finds an anchorage of sorts in the final London scenes, which significantly echoes Blow-Up in its use of absence as the often strongest form of presence.Author: GE
Cast & crew
Director: Mathieu Amalric
Producer: Paulo Branco
Cast: Jeanne Balibar, Esther Gorintin, Anna Prucnal, Ariella Reggio, Peter Hudson full cast
Duration: 80 mins
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