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Nés en 68
2008 Drama
Review
Nés en 68 marks a
radical departure for the talented writer-director team Olivier
Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, who had previously scored notable
successes with their highly innovative comedies Drôle
de Félix (2000) and Crustacés et coquillages
(2005). The film attempts to depict the major changes in French
society, from May 1968 to the late 1980s through the shared experiences
of a group of friends, making a dubious connection between the era of
free love and the AIDS epidemic that followed. Whilst there is
some merit in the concept, the film’s obvious budgetary limitations
prevent it from realising anything like its full potential and the film
feels shallow and prone to cliché. Ducastel
and Martineau’s writing and
direction are inferior to their previous productions, but what
most lets the film down are the performances which
are generally lacking in conviction and scupper
what might have been a great piece of drama.
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Director:
Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Starring: Laetitia Casta, Yannick Renier, Yann Trégouët, Christine Citti, Marc Citti Synopsis
In 1968, Catherine, Yves and Hervé are students in Paris,
politically active and willing participants in the turbulent events of
May. Driven by anti-capitalist idealism, they join a group
which sets up a community on an abandoned farm in Lot. The three
friends live an idyllic life at first, enjoying their newfound freedom
outside the crypto-fascist bourgeois system, but soon their differing
ideals and aspirations begin to drive them apart...
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