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La Vie et Rien d'Autre (1989)

Drama | 135 minutes
3,36 35 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 135 minuten

Alternative title: Life and Nothing But

Country: France

Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier

Stars: Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma and Pascale Vignal

IMDb score: 7,5 (2.258)

Releasedate: 6 September 1989

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La Vie et Rien d'Autre plot

January, 1920. More than 350,000 French fighters are missing after the war. Major Dellaplane tries to match the dead and wounded with the descriptions of relatives. He is tireless and hates the idea of an 'unknown soldier'. A high-ranking lady crosses his path. She is also looking for her husband. After their first unfriendly meeting, their feelings change. Dellaplane may be on the trail of her husband, but isn't sure if he should reveal it.

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Commandant Delaplane

Irène de Courtil

André, le chauffeur

Lieutenant Trévise

Général Villerieux

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Saw the movie for a second time. It has been a while since I saw Sabine Azéma at work again, this time as the charming co-star of a masterful Philippe Noiret, almost unmatchable when such roles, in which he really carries the film, were given to him. ("Coup de Torchon", "Le Vieux Fusil"...)

WWI ended on November 11, 1918, and the suffering reverberated for a long time. "People still feel like they are in the war," says Irène when she sees that she is far from alone in tracking down her disappeared husband, two years after the war, and also how she sees how a motivated major and his men still work every day. to brave misery and danger.

Bertrand Tavernier does not fail to take a critical look at the course of the war, the mass slaughter, the distant attitude of governments, the capital that made adverse choices and the hypocrisy after the facts. It is not surprising that some of this comes from Noiret's mouth and it certainly does not lack impact.

The chaotic atmosphere is beautifully, cinematographically depicted and the ending expresses people's human longing for a life far from the raw.

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blurp194

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The unknown soldier.

Tavernier creates one of the most powerful anti-war films ever, a game in which the incomprehensibly inhuman nature of trench warfare is set against the search of a married woman for the man she has long since fallen in love - with the obsessive major with his urge to identify all the fallen against the need felt by society for a symbol - the unknown soldier. Abstraction and intimacy, anonymity and identity, the lofty needs of the state in contrast with the simple questions of the individual citizen.

That France was still busy dealing with La Grande Guerre in the late 1980s should come as no surprise - in every village, no matter how small, there are still monuments to the fallen where the armistice is commemorated and celebrated every year, with flags and a speech by the mayor. Mort pour La France. Tavernier doesn't play games with history either - everything is worked out down to the last detail and is correct, both in the big picture and in the details, and there are enough of them to fill a book. From the unprecedented bluntness with which the problem of unexploded ordnance is discussed to the horizon-blue overcoats and the practiced ease with which you light your Gauloise behind the flap. Whether the small village can't take over some of the fallen from the larger one.

No one other than Noiret could have played that role in such a magnificent way, that should come as no surprise. It is that Azéma is so good against it and thereby makes Noiret come across even stronger than he himself manages to do so seemingly effortlessly. Too bad that the ending is just a bit weak, the last minute or so should perhaps have been left out. Or is it just right and is it that I can more easily put myself in the role of the good major, and that I need a bit more time to see what it means.

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