LA FEMME ET LE TGV (2016) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Timo von Gunten
Jane Birkin, Lucien Guignard, Gilles Tschudi
It's been more than 50 years since Jane Birkin played one of the teenyboppers who frolicked with David Hemmings on the floor of his photography studio in "Blow-Up" (1966). In this movie, she plays an old woman who runs a pastry shop and goes to the window of her house every day to wave at the bullet train as it goes speeding by. A couple of things happen that suggest her life might be winding down, but that might not be the case. An Oscar-nominated short film from Switzerland, apparently based on a true story. Quietly contained and beautifully done, with a radiant performance by Birkin.
