The Brontë Sisters

Les soeurs Brontë

France

1979

115 Min

Color

1.66:1

French

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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PROD Yves Gasser, Klaus Hellwig, Yves Peyrot

SCR André Téchiné, Pascal Bonitzer, Jean Gruault

CAST Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, Marie-France Pisier, Pascal Greggory, Patrick Magee, Hélène Surgère, Roland Bertin, Alice Sapritch, Jean Sorel, Roland Barthes

PROD DES Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko

A profile of the famous Brontë sisters with a love for his subject and an acute artistic vision. The film’s heavy, repressive mood evokes the harshness and injustice of the life that the Brontë sisters endured. The passion and color that is so vivid in their novels was absent from their daily existence, and the film’s appropriately gloomy cinematography – which uses dreary earth colors to emphasize the cold, remote feel – brings this with great poignancy. The film features an all-star cast: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier and Isabelle Huppert as Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë and Pascal Gregory as their ill-fated brother Branwell. –wikipedia

Director

André Téchiné

A critic with the Cahiers du Cinéma in the 60s, he made his directing debut with Paulina s’en va, his first feature, shown at the Fortnight in 1969. He returned to the Fortnight in 1975 with Souvenirs d’en France. Reputed for his work with actors, he has directed the likes of Isabelle Adjani, Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Daniel Auteuil… He won several awards at Venice and Cannes and received three Césars in 1995 for Les roseaux sauvages. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

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Dermo

2Mar10

As odd as it seems to be watching a quintessentially English story played out in French, Techine's auteur approach works well with this story. The sparse dialogue and froideur of the central trio is heightened by the atmospheric location. Quite sublime!