nothing about robert (rien sur robert) 1999 region free dvd5 french bcbc

Nothing About Robert (Rien Sur Robert) is a French film directed by Pascal Bonitzer, released in 1999 starring Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kimberlain and Valentina Cervi.

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Synopsis

Rien sur Robert is a smart comedy about a man haunted by his experiences. Didier Temple (Fabrice Luchini) is a journalist who writes an article about a Bosnian film he had never seen, calling it "pure fascist propaganda." (The director, Pascal Bonitzer, was once the editor of the celebrated film magazine Cahiers du Cinema. However, this episode is not based on his own experiences, but on an incident some years ago regarding Underground by Emir Kusturica, which was declared a fascist movie by the French daily, Le Monde.) Following an argument with his girlfriend, Juliette (Sandrine Kiberlain), Didier's life falls apart. He is convinced he is being followed by a dark haired man. He thinks everyone is looking at him, just waiting to insult him. He fights with his family. Juliette is fed up and leaves him for another man, a TV director she meets in a park. At a dinner party, Didier is introduced to his shadow, Jerome Sauveur (Laurent Lucas), who could be his double except that he's more handsome and writes better. Didier also encounters a strange young girl, Aurelie (Valentina Cervi), but Juliette soon comes back. All these ghosts of his life keep haunting him, and he finally winds up at the foot of Mont Blanc in rather unpleasant circumstances. Rien sur Robert was screened as part of the Panorama section of the 49th Berlin International Film Festival, 1999.



Nothing About Robert (Rien Sur Robert)

Reviewed on: 19 Jan 2001

Whenever witty, sexy, intelligent movies are made in Europe, The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie is dusted off and given an airing. "Very Bunuellian," the commentators burble. "So discreet it's charming." Pascal Bonitzer's hilarious life in the times of a paranoid Parisian critic slots neatly into this category. If Bunuel had directed the film, it would have been drier and more cynical. As it is, Fabrice Luchini slips his leash and gives the funniest performance of the year, with Michel Piccoli, in a support role, coming a strong second.



Didier (Luchini) and his girlfriend, Juliette (Sandrine Kiberlain), have just split up. He is feeling delicate and sorry for himself, keeps worrying about how he looks and hating every author who writes well, particularly living ones. He and Juliette continue to see each other, as if they need the comfort of confidences, and she tells him about the fabulous sex she's having with a documentary maker.



He goes to lunch with a famous literary figure (Piccoli), even though he hasn't been invited, and is lambasted by the great man for a review of a Bosnian film he didn't see. He is accused of intellectual arrogance and told, with the utmost sarcasm: "You have nothing to say." He leaves before the meal, but gets lost in the house and stumbles upon Aurelie (Valentina Cervi), his host's beautiful niece, who is young enough to ignore convention and wild enough to like it.



Out of boredom, no doubt, she decides to seduce this nervous little man, who can't quite believe his good fortune.



The film juggles Didier's attempts to understand what is happening, with Juliette's fickle emotions and Aurelie's passionate appetite. It is a lesson in man's vanity and women's desire, with dazzling dialogue ("You look oblique." "It's my eyes") and farcical sexual combinations.