AROUND A SMALL MOUNTAIN (2009) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Jacques Rivette
Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, André Marcon,
Julie-Marie Parmentier, Tintin Orsini, Vimala Pons
A woman's car breaks down on the road, and a guy stops and gets it started for her without either of them speaking a word. They meet sometime later in town, where she's working as the ticket seller for a circus that plays to mostly empty seats. He comes to the show, and then starts hanging around the circus as it moves from place to place. The movie was written on the fly as it was being shot, and there's a sense that it doesn't quite know where it's going, but I guess if you don't know where you're going, you might as well go there with Jane Birkin.
Jane Birkin
(1946-2023)
