“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?” — Jacques Lacan “How’s it feel to take that off every night and find there’s nothing underneath?” — Quentin Rendez-vous (1985) is the sixth film directed by André Téchiné, the first he wrote with Olivier Assayas, and the …
This new column for Sound on Sight will feature Cahiers du Cinema critics-turned-filmmakers. However, it will not cover the infamous New Wave directors, but four other filmmakers who wrote for the journal and subsequently became directors. What follows is a brief history of the journal and its association with the four filmmakers that will be …
Unforgivable Directed by André Téchiné Written by André Téchiné and Mehdi Ben Attia France, 2011 There have certainly been worse cases of writer’s block, but the main character in the new French film Unforgivable really lets his spin out of control. Unforgivable, from co-writer and director André Téchiné, tells an almost Hitchcockian story of how …
Impardonnables (English title: Unforgivable) Directed by André Téchiné Written by André Téchiné and Mehdi Ben Attia France, 2011 French director and screenwriter André Téchiné has had a long and illustrious career, earning critical acclaim for a great variety of films. His works date as far back as 1969, the year he released his debut, Aline …