On Lisbon Theatres (at last)

(All photos downloaded from the Internet)

These images depict a movie I’ve recently watched in Lisbon, «Coeurs», also known as «Private Fears in Public Places» and «Corações», another spectacular film by Alain Resnais and a prizewinner at Venice Film Festival (2006). The characters exert an influence on each other’s destiny though they neither know one another nor ever meet. It is a choral film that is both dark and full of wit, like all the work of this most original French film-maker who blends daring experimentation with form, with humour and profundity. You shouldn't miss it…