OrpheusEurydice2.0077

OrpheusEurydice2.0077_Resnais

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OrpheusEurydice2.0077_Resnais

Darn you Will Brockliss!

notice in the Wisconsin student daily

Vous n’avez encore rien vu (2012) “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! dir.by Alain Resnais

combines two plays (“loosely based on” says Wikipedia reviewer) by Jean Anouilh: Eurydice and Cher Antoine ou l’amour raté.
Competed for, but did not win the 2012 Cannes Palme d’Or.
Two actors play Orpheus: Pierre Arditi, Orphée 1, and Lambert Wilson, Orphée 2; plus, in the play within the film an Orphée 3 plays opposite Eurydice 3.
Two actresses play Eurydice: Sabine Azéma, Eurydice 1, and Anne Consigny, Eurydice 2

Rotten Tomatoes: sampler of critics

Leslie Nesselson at rogerebert.com: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/you-aint-seen-nothin-yet-2013

Is it the “final film” or merely the “most recent” production by an old man? Is there something about doing Orpheus that speaks finality?

From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...