Arnaud Desplechin’s film about the unbearably sweet nature of remembered youth only now finds a UK releaseArnaud Desplechin is such a distinctive storyteller: intriguing, perplexing, seductively indirect.
His ideas and plotlines sometimes overlap or nestle on top of each other, a mysterious palimpsest.
There is a certain confectionery in his work, like a box of chocolates with all the chocolates balanced on top of each other.There is also a generic ambiguity; Desplechin deploys memories that stray to the edge of whimsy and fantasy.
My favourite is Kings & Queen (2004); this latest film, in fact his last-but-one, was in the Director’s Fortnight section of the Cannes film festival in 2015, and has only now found a UK release.
For me, the incomplete jigsaw of its narrative ultimately felt less than entirely satisfying.
It is about the unbearably sweet and unchangeable nature of remembered youth, speckled with literary references to Yeats,
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