10 Ratings

This Answering Service Takes No Messages

Ce répondeur ne prend pas de messages

France, 1979

Drama

Synopsis

Alone with his memories,a man retreats into his apartment. In off, he reads his wife’s letters, testimonies of moral suffering which has broken him. The man in the film has no face. He wears bandages around the head, with it the pain of losing his wife and devastation of the world.

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This Answering Service Takes No Messages Directed by Alain Cavalier

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Awards & Festivals

International Film Festival Rotterdam

1997

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José Neves's rating of the film This Answering Service Takes No Messages
José Neves

4,5. A film 79 which precedes the two masterpieces that would arise in 93 and 96, respectively, "Libera Me" and "La Rencontre". From a fictional autobiographical appointment (aspect that will dominate his cinema from 96), a space and time performance that will become an unbreathable huis clos, like the 93 movie. A great less known film of a filmmaker who, in the meantime, settled down into his processes.
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