Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, the living and the dead. In this breakneck period of her life, time is running faster and faster and Anna takes a run-up to face the past and try to go towards the future. And, maybe, to manage to still believe in love?
Boxes - Les boîtes
Serbia
Belgrade Film Festival
France
France
Serbia
I understand excessive feelings: showy, like Fanny's and mine.
God, why does no one talk about this? There's so much love and lightness here, Birkin penning, directing and staring in an autobiographical look at the key relationships in her life – delicate, tender, and playful as she interacts with the ghosts in her family.
I found the enjambment of the format quirky and charming, conversations overlapping, figures appearing and disappearing, but anchored in intimacy and honesty.
Pa, I've got you. You're mine. No one else's – you can't get away. With my hand I could move yours, Pa, your hand's alive.
You're not dead. They were lying.
I can breathe you in so you breathe, too. Pa, my heart is…
funny and tender and raw and weird. exactly the kind of semi-autobiographical film you'd expect Birkin to make.
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The forgotten entry in the trifecta of biographical Jane Birkin films. Arrestingly honest, but also self-aware. Birkin comes across as rash and juvenile, and somewhat purposeless, while her family ebbs in and out of her life. There are also quite a few literal ghosts, with the most notable being the Serge Gainsbourg stand-in.
Birkin weaves and sews memory through the walls of a crumbling house; the past tangling around the exposed beams, making its mark on the peeling wallpaper. This is the kind of cinema I want to make!
Unbelievably overlooked! Seek it out, drink it in, and fall in love!
Working my way through the movie theaters of nyc and needed to go to FIAF. Picked this movie at random and was pleasantly surprised. A tender, almost theatrical play-like film. Loved the idea of boxes triggering memories that the main character relives
Also a super cool theatrical experience. The theater at FIAF was very nice and surprisingly massive. Must sit 200+. Will add this to the rotation
Also shoutout to the 80 year old woman who sat by herself, 5 rows in front of anyone else, in the very front row. Hero shit
C’est quoi cette famille de golmon
« i did everything wrong. i got everything wrong. i hurt children. i only remember what i want to remember. perhaps it was all my fault. »
such a lovely film, wonderful to see after reading munkey diaries
“It's revolting... to survive everything.”
ai esse filme é tão bonito. como nossa vida assombra a gente, afeta nosso presente e afeta os outros. jane te adoro
Lou Doillon just looks so cool.
(5th & final film in Being Birkin film series/January 2024 at FIAF)
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Il faut peut-être un peu de temps pour rentrer dans ce film, mais celui-ci se construit et nous emporte vraiment en deuxième partie. Il est touchant de voir une partie de la vie de Jane Birkin dévoilée d’une façon si inattendue et poétique. Ces cartons de déménagement dans sa maison de Bretagne qui s’ouvrent au fur et à mesure de l’histoire nous font découvrir différentes facettes de cette grande femme que ce soit de mauvaises ou de bonnes. Des souvenirs surgissent par le biais d’apparitions de fantômes de son passé (morts ou vivants) sans que le spectateur ne comprenne vraiment la situation générale. C’est aussi cela qui crée la beauté de ce film, car Jane…
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Premier film du Festival International du Film de la Roche-sur-Yon. Boxes de Jane Birkin et un film qui a été diffusé en hommage à celle-ci, et je suis très heureux d’avoir assisté à cette séance.
Je ne peux qu’être boulversé par ce visionnage, bien que j’ai eu du mal à rentré dans le film et a comprendre ce que Jane souhaitait nous faire entendre, on apprend ou re-apprend des parties de sa vie qui sont très intime et qui fut très éprouvante pour elle.
Je pense que certains auront énormément de mal à apprécier ce film de part sa narration un peu décousu mais également le huit-clos qui pour ma part ne m’a pas tant dérangé, mais c’est…
