They say life is not a rehearsal, but Alain Resnais's Life of Riley (Aimer, boire et chanter and not La Vie de Reilly is curiously the French title) portrays human existence as a series of rehearsals which take place totally off stage. Resnais last work, which premiered at The New York Film Festival and is now in theatrical release (he died in March) may seem like a far cry from Last Year at Marienbad, the l961 film, staged in an aristocratic chateau which created the director's international re...
They say life is not a rehearsal, but Alain Resnais's Life of Riley (Aimer, boire et chanter and not La Vie de Reilly is curiously the French title) portrays human existence as a series of rehearsals which take place totally off stage. Resnais last work, which premiered at The New York Film Festival and is now in theatrical release (he died in March) may seem like a far cry from Last Year at Marienbad, the l961 film, staged in an aristocratic chateau which created the director's international re...
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