2016 · drama · history
Cezanne and I
Directed by Danièle Thompson1h 57m2016
They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to overeat. Sketched models by day, caressed them by night... Now, Paul is a painter and Emile a writer. Glory has passed Paul by. But Emile has it all: fame, money, the perfect wife, whom Paul once loved. They judge each other, admire each other, confront each other. They lose touch, meet up again, like a couple who cannot stop loving each other.
Our read: Cezanne and I (2016) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · history entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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