Six elegant, unsettled French people who can't always get what they want move around beautiful Parisian rooms in Private Fears in Public Places, Alain Resnais' mature adaptation of a dramatic daisy chain by veteran British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The interlocking relationships (real estate broker and his sister, broker's assistant and a bartender, etc.) play out in adult dialogue triste but philosophical. The grand old filmmaker frames each scene like a fine painting. And fake snow falls with happy artificiality between rueful vignettes.
WOE IS MOI Laura Morante and Lambert Wilson are among Private Fears' troubled pairs in Paris
EW's GRADE
B+Details Rated: Unrated; Length: 120 Minutes; Genres: Drama, Foreign Language; With: Sabine Azema and Lambert Wilson; Distributor: IFC First Take
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