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Face in Le Monde

November 03, 2009 Nimmzo 265

Newspaper Le Monde by Isabelle Regnier Nov 3, 2009

With for set the Louvre and the Tuileries, the Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang tells the story of a chaotic shooting and pays tribute to François Truffaut.
One must back far in the history of cinema to find an actress
whose the beauty radiates at this point the film.

Avec pour décors le Louvre et les Tuileries, le cinéaste taïwanais Tsai Ming-liang raconte l'histoire d'un tournage chaotique et rend hommage à François Truffaut.
Il faut remonter à loin, très loin dans l'histoire du cinéma, pour trouver une actrice dont la beauté irradie à ce point la pellicule.

The entire article is freely available online during a couple of weeks.

Isabelle Regnier, Le Monde on November 3, 2009

The journalist of Le Monde gives the keys of the mise en abyme at different levels of the movie Face,
the myth of Salome, the interactions and references with the Truffaut's cinema personified by Jean-Pierre Leaud
and the Truffaut's actresses: Fanny Ardant, Nathalie Baye, and Jeanne Moreau!

The conclusion is particularly strong
not only because Isabelle Regnier, echoing the introduction, talks about Tsai Ming-Liang and Laetitia Casta,
but also because the title of the movie is transfigured toward a modern tribute of the Truffaut's cinema
reinvented by Tsai Ming-Liang.

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