L'Arbre, le Maire et la Médiathèque (1993)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Duration: 105 minuten
Alternative title: The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque
Country:
France
Directed by: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Pascal Greggory, Arielle Dombasle and Fabrice Luchini
IMDb score:
6,9 (1.881)
Releasedate: 10 February 1993
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L'Arbre, le Maire et la Médiathèque plot
The socialist mayor of a provincial town has plans to plow a field and an old willow tree for the construction of a sports and cultural center. He is thwarted by a sentimental teacher. When the two men's daughters become friends, everything changes.
Actors and actresses
Julien Dechaumes
Bérénice Beaurivage
Marc Rossignol, l’instituteur
Blandine Lenoir
Régis Lebrun-Blondet
Antoine Pergola
Jean Walter
Zoé Rossignol
Véga Dechaumes
Régis' Assistant
Reviews & comments
Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Not a completely successful Rohmer. However, I liked the idea and also a timeless contemporary theme in which the tensions between man and nature stand in each other's way. Development brokers and building promoters think that the sky is the limit without taking little account of the nature, feasibility, necessity, ... of their projects.
The mayor sees it big. Who is already waiting for a cultural center in a farmer's hole where there are more cows than people? I did find the various interviews somewhere halfway through the film with residents who were for and against it interesting. It seemed like a kind of documentary report at the time.
It is a pity that the confrontation between mayor and activist-teacher was very limited. The meetings in the city, it was Lyon (?), were quite boring. Remarkable and rather easy that the mayor let himself be guided by the daughter of the teacher, apart from the fact that it was a beautiful scene.
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