Good Grief: Nuanced Dramatic Debut Lands Long Awaited Release in Us
Initially premiering at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010, the directorial debut of Stephanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond, The Little Bedroom, at last gets a Us theatrical release after four years. Picking up several accolades during its extended festival circuit tour, the film was Switzerland’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film back in 2011. Notably, it may be one of the last chances to see Michel Bouquet in a lead role (though he’s also in 2012’s celebrated Renoir, which France submitted for the same accolade in 2013). An intersection of two individuals during a period of increasing desperation, both refusing to accept an innate truth about the present state of their situations, it’s a quietly affecting and genuinely moving portrait of grief, reconciliation, and the cruel inevitably of aging.
Having given birth to a stillborn child only several months ago,...
Initially premiering at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010, the directorial debut of Stephanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond, The Little Bedroom, at last gets a Us theatrical release after four years. Picking up several accolades during its extended festival circuit tour, the film was Switzerland’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film back in 2011. Notably, it may be one of the last chances to see Michel Bouquet in a lead role (though he’s also in 2012’s celebrated Renoir, which France submitted for the same accolade in 2013). An intersection of two individuals during a period of increasing desperation, both refusing to accept an innate truth about the present state of their situations, it’s a quietly affecting and genuinely moving portrait of grief, reconciliation, and the cruel inevitably of aging.
Having given birth to a stillborn child only several months ago,...
- 9/25/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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