Believe it or not,Patricia Gozzi is virtually forgotten in her native France.Not only "Cybèle Ou Les Dimanches De Ville D'Avray" is NOT available on DVD ,but it's also NEVER screened on French TV!But at least ,it's included in the French Dictionnaire Des Films whereas "Rapture" aka "La Fleur De L'Age" is nowhere to be seen.It was broadcast today on satellite TV.I knew Patricia Gozzi was outstanding,but in "Rapture " she is even better an actress than in "Cybèle".Her decision to call it quits after her marriage was a major loss for French cinema.(Gozzi had made her real debut in Melville's "Leon Morin Pretre" but she only had a supporting part.
It's hard to admit that the director who made "Tower Inferno" or "Death on the Nile" made this art house work.But it is so."Rapture" is an exceptionally original movie,with complex characters (one user wrote ,and he was right ,that the relationship father/daughter remained extremely mysterious ,running the whole gamut,from desperate love to hatred and resentment),a gloomy cinematography which takes advantage of the splendor of the landscapes of Bretagne.Some scenes are absolutely phenomenal: the rag doll on the rocks (and the final scene which is its exact equivalent),the fight in the shed,the insane asylum where Agnes is irresistibly attracted ,the chemistry between her and James Deanesque Dean Stockwell .There are similarities between Gozzi's parts in "Cybèle" and "Rapture" :in both works,we find a little girl or a teenager in love with someone much older than her.The endings are very similar too.Both are heartbreakingly beautiful .
To write that Georges Delerue's scores are simply magnificent is to state the obvious.He too was never replaced.
It's hard to admit that the director who made "Tower Inferno" or "Death on the Nile" made this art house work.But it is so."Rapture" is an exceptionally original movie,with complex characters (one user wrote ,and he was right ,that the relationship father/daughter remained extremely mysterious ,running the whole gamut,from desperate love to hatred and resentment),a gloomy cinematography which takes advantage of the splendor of the landscapes of Bretagne.Some scenes are absolutely phenomenal: the rag doll on the rocks (and the final scene which is its exact equivalent),the fight in the shed,the insane asylum where Agnes is irresistibly attracted ,the chemistry between her and James Deanesque Dean Stockwell .There are similarities between Gozzi's parts in "Cybèle" and "Rapture" :in both works,we find a little girl or a teenager in love with someone much older than her.The endings are very similar too.Both are heartbreakingly beautiful .
To write that Georges Delerue's scores are simply magnificent is to state the obvious.He too was never replaced.