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Faibles amusements

2004 · 36 min

A quiet, cerebral fragment that asks you to watch closely and find tragic weight in ordinary settings.

Directed by: Jean-Claude Rousseau

Overview: An except of verse by Racine is used as the title of Jean-Claude Rousseau’s last film, in order to make us aware. Aware of what? That it is first of all a matter of construction and art. That it perhaps concerns unhappy love stories. And that, all in all, it consists in exactly and discreetly giving a story and its settings tragic accents, without which they would fade into the unrepresentable blandness of "futile amusement".

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Directed by: Jean-Claude Rousseau

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Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
art
memory
Places: None
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	0
Horror	0
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	3
Tension	2
Darkness	3
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	5

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Directed by: Jean-Claude Rousseau
Runtime: 36 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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