ON CONNAÎT LA CHANSON

Alain Resnais invente le “film chanteur”, quelque part entre l’univers poétique de Jacques Demy et les canons de la comédie musicale classique.

Any fears that Alain Resnais’ bold experimentalism would mellow with age are roundly answered with this wonderful late-period musical. Dedicated to Dennis Potter—and borrowing his lip-synched explosions of feeling—Same Old Song embeds a simmering satire beneath its impassioned surfaces.