Directed by Elisabeth Vogler
France | 2021 | Fiction | 85 min | French w/ subtitles
Film Source: Films Boutique
Sponsored by: Lyric Theatre; Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region
Please note the virtual ticket for this film is only viewable in the U.S. & Canada.
For nearly 90 minutes straight, the camera never stops rolling. It bounces from conversation to conversation, traverses sidewalks and subways, hops aboard motorcycles and bicycles, settles at esplanades and park benches. In one continuous shot, Roaring '20s ping-pongs through the streets of Paris just as the city heaves a huge sigh of relief emerging from the spring of 2020 pandemic lockdown. The film’s diverse cast of characters provides a cross-section of Parisian life during this young century. As one character says, “a century only really starts in the ‘20s.” Discussions of race, art, class, anxiety, the Internet, masks, love, and loneliness fill the air—a discursive symphony for our times. The director goes by a pseudonym, Elisabeth Vogler, which suits a film so grounded in the tension between revelation and anonymity. ~TW