🌿🎬 LES ROSEAUX SAUVAGES [WILD REEDS]

🌿 A COMING OF AGE SAGA
Set in 1962 against the backdrop of the last days of the French-Algerian war and amidst the lush landscapes of Southern France, Wild Reeds is a coming-of-age saga looking at the sexual awakening of four teenagers.

The quartet discover sensual delights while grappling with inner-conflict and political differences. Sensitive François (Gaël Morel) and feminist-communist Maïté (Élodie Bouchez) are in a somewhat stunted relationship, bonding over a mutual love for movies and rock'n'roll. However when François meets Serge (Stéphane Rideau), a handsome muscular youth from the local farming community, he questions his sexuality, while Maïté is seduced by Henri (Frédéric Gorny), a teenage exile whose political stance is in complete opposition to hers.

This movie echoes a poetic fable by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695): The Oak and the Reed. Boasting of his strength, the proud oak tree offers to shelter the frail reed. But the reed rejects the oak and, when a storm blows, the reed bends with the wind and survives, while the oak is torn up by its roots. Jean Lapoine and Germain Desmoulins have captured the clear, warm beauty of the sunshine in southern France in their cinematography. The bright lightness serves to illuminate the characters whose growth and change over the course of the film recall the words of La Fontaine’s contemporary, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) who observed that: Man is nothing but a reed, the weakest thing in creation, but he is a reed that can think. Check out the Trailer|

This is an almost perfect cinematic experience, much like La Fontaine's fable, all of Wild Reeds’ adolescent characters need to learn to bend from their initial, inflexible positions and accept the ambiguities inherent in adulthood.

📋 SCHEDULE BREAKDOWN

1. 12:30PM: We will meet at the Toulouse Lautrec cafe nearby for drinks or a quick bite
2. 13:45PM: Then we're off to The Cinema museum to see the film.
3. 4:00 PM We reconvene again to score and review the film. The results will be posted on Letterboxd.

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