Scarlet
There is a Rembrandt-esque quality to the images…characters and images are illustrated with a fierce and breathtaking beauty.
Scarlet
Pietro Marcello, one of contemporary cinema’s most versatile talents, follows up his dramatic breakthrough Martin Eden with this enchanting period fable based on a beloved 1923 novella by Russian writer Alexander Grin. Shortly after World War I, veteran Raphaël (Raphaël Thiery) returns home from the front lines to find himself a widower, with his infant daughter placed in his arms to raise. Living alone with her father in rural Normandy, Juliette (Juliette Jouan) grows into a lonely young woman who is passionate about singing and music. She seeks refuge in the nearby woods, where she meets a witch who promises scarlet sails will one day take her away from her village. Reckoning with her future and swept away by a rakish young pilot (Louis Garrel) who literally falls from the sky, Juliette never stops believing in the witch’s prophecy. Tracing Juliette’s journey throughout the 20 years of great invention between the world wars, Scarlet weaves together music and fantasy, history and folklore, to craft a magical realist fable of identity and emancipation. In his first film made in France, Marcello proves again he is as comfortable in the realm of folklore as he is in creative nonfiction, delicately interweaving realist drama, ethereal romance, and musical flights of fancy.
“A fascinating, slippery movie filled with lyrical beauty, acts of barbarism, moments of magic and unexpected hope...As he did in ‘Martin Eden,’ Marcello takes an expansive, visually adventurous approach to a story about people and the historical forces that define, imprison and sometimes liberate them." – Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“[A] charming French language fable… Applying Marcello’s unfussy nonfiction shooting style to a tender father-daughter story, Scarlet recalls the work of Jacques Demy.” – Peter Debruge, VARIETY
“A fascinating, slippery movie filled with lyrical beauty, acts of barbarism, moments of magic and unexpected hope...As he did in ‘Martin Eden,’ Marcello takes an expansive, visually adventurous approach to a story about people and the historical forces that define, imprison and sometimes liberate them." – Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“[A] charming French language fable… Applying Marcello’s unfussy nonfiction shooting style to a tender father-daughter story, Scarlet recalls the work of Jacques Demy.” – Peter Debruge, VARIETY
Genre
French Cinema,
Drama,
Romance
Runtime
103
Language
French
Director
Pietro Marcello
Writer(s)
Alexander Grin,
Pietro Marcello,
Maurizio Braucci
Cast
Raphaël Thiéry,
Juliette Jouan,
Noémie Lvovsky,
Louis Garrel
FEATURED REVIEW
Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
A small-town period piece set between World War I and the mid-1930s, "Scarlet" is a French fable by an Italian director. Although its style couldn't be more different, its conception evokes Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch," which was less a portrait of any era's "real France" than a world ...
Played at
Glendale 6.23.23 - 6.29.23
Town Center 5 6.30.23 - 7.06.23
Monica Film Center 6.30.23 - 7.06.23
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