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Zachary Knighton, Anna Mouglalis, Marc Barbé

Philippe Grandrieux's film LA VIE NOUVELLE shadows the waning light of human civilization with its punitive master animal, mankind. The film conveys itself through strident photography. There is littl...( read more  read more... )e to no dialogue at all. And an atmospherically industrial soundtrack intensifies the arresting images it accompanies, adding tension to pictures already wrought with anxiety and rage. Numerous shots pull in and out of focus, careen around unsteadily, explore dark color temperatures and aperture levels, and at one point the photography flips into negativism, symbolically suggestive of hell. The story, somewhat inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, follows a woman sold into prostitution and the young man who battles his own animalism while trying to save her. Ironically, he wagers his own civilized self for her rescue. Grandrieux's dark film saturates the audience with a deluge of violent sexual imagery as well as straight male aggression, cinematographic escorts in his presentation of unchecked human nihilism. With content so carnal and desolate, the film flirts with the audience's own voyeurism and sense of a primal nature, seeking to alert the mind to the vile body in which it's housed. At times shocking and lurid, the film relays an extreme vision of human nature as ultimately bestial.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 42 min.

Directed by: Philippe Grandrieux

Release Date: January 1, 2002

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  • columbiatch
    June 19, 2009
    columbiatch
    This was pretty intense and visceral experience, helped by some really awesome avant garde aesthetics and some of the most fucked up, terrifyingly directed scenes ever. It does however too often risks being too cold and abstract, especially with the way the characters are treate...( read more)d as little more than bodies. I also don't think it's necessary to have that drone in the background all the time when silence is more preferable.
  • emerson17
    May 14, 2008
    emerson17
    Grandrieux is something of the French answer to Lynch... this one is VERY deranged, though.

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  • emerson17
    May 14, 2008
    emerson17
    If you happen to be into pretty weird stuffs and special visual experiences, then you should really try this one. Or maybe you shouldn't.
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