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Embrasse-moi (1989)
The first film shot by legendary cinematographer Darius Khondji and anchored by a heartbreaking performance by Sophie Rochut, EMBRASSE-MOI is a slice-of-life drama about Louise, an 12-year-old girl left to her own devices over the summer following her parents’ divorce. Her mother is a renowned concert pianist, anxious to begin a second life free of entanglements. Her father is a workaholic industrialist, distracted to the point of denial about the collapse of his marriage. Rosier’s command of her cast is impossible to deny, as is the brave unsentimentality of EMBRASSE-MOI’s approach: Louise clocks her mother’s newer, younger lover in one brazen panning shot across his naked body. While Rosier denied any autobiographical interpretations of EMBRASSE-MOI, it’s hard not to read at least a kinship between Louie’s solitude and the filmmaker’s own relationship with her famous mother Hélène Gordon-Lazareff (founder of Elle) and stepfather Pierre Lazareff, who adopted Michèle as his own.
Updated May 27 2020
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Cast
Isabelle Sadoyan
Mamy Gaby
Yann Collette
Le voyageur
Dominique Valadié
Nora - la mère
Philippe Clévenot
L'accordeur
Sophie Rochut
Louise
Thomas Nock
Helmut
Crew
Darius Khondji
Cinematography
Aldo Romano
Original Music Composer
Michèle Rosier
Director
Michèle Rosier
Writer
Andrée Davanture
Editor
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