After wealthy and successful stage director Antoine d'Anthac dies (very likely a romantic suicide), his butler enacts his last wish by inviting troupers from d'Anthac's past achievements (real-life thesps of the Comédie Français portray themselves here, including Michel Piccoli and Hippolyte Giradot) to watch a new video of d'Anthac's greatest triumph: a modern-dress take-off on Orpheus and Eurydice (the “Antoine d'Anthac” piece is actually playwright Jean Anouilh's 1941 Eurydice). In veteran French filmmaker Alain Resnais's latest, this film-within-the-film (done by another director altogether, Bruno Podalydès) spurs the assembled mourners to fall back into their old stage roles—sometimes with two of them essaying the very same part—in semi-disassociated scenes that seem to cross-reference relationships to each other and with the mysterious d'Anthac, a master of "coupe de theatre." Exceedingly handsome staging and production values may mollify viewers who might otherwise find this obtuse and unfathomable. An offbeat foreign film by a legendary auteur, this is a strong optional purchase. (C. Cassady)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Kino Lorber, 115 min., in French w/English subtitles, not rated, DVD: $29.95 Volume 29, Issue 1
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
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