Seattle Sightings: The Seattle International Film Festival, 2017
Abstract
Reviews 273 Seattle Sightings: The Seattle International Film Festival, 2017. . SIFF’s forty-third edition festival trailer invited movie-goers to gather round for awe-inspiring tales from across the globe. The twenty-seven Francophone films, although varied in tone and genre, displayed a common tendency to intertwine social, political, and economic issues with engaging character studies, a majority of which featured central female characters played by exceptional actresses. The newly restored Criterion version of the Marseille Trilogy—Marius (Alexander Korda, 1931), Fanny (Marc Allégret, 1932), César (Marcel Pagnol, 1936)—played to rapt admiration in the Archival Program; and Sébastien Laudenbach’s painterly, minimalist La jeune fille sans mains graced the animation section. This latter, in an elegantly metaphorical manner, adapts a Brothers Grimm tale of a girl who, deprived of her hands, nonetheless learns to prendre sa vie en main. A quartet of documentaries explored intriguing topics. Michaël Prazan begins with a 2006 recording his father Bernard made for the INA of his experience as a hidden child—information previously unknown to the family. Using archival material, reenactments, and interviews—including with the smuggler who saved Bernard’s life—La passeuse des Aubrais shares this complex, novelistic family history. L’Opéra (Jean-Stéphane Bron), filmed during preparations for the autumn 2015 season,“visits” with the new director and various artists and crewmembers as…
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