"Only two things matter: class struggle and sex."
Director: Robert Guediguian
The film shifts backwards and forwards from the playwrights to their imaginary plot.
The setting of their imaginary creation is a decaying garage in Estaque (near Marseilles) run by an Italian family. Gigi and Jean-Do are the mechanic cousins. They fight against closure by the bank.
Characters are tried out and then erased by the playwrights and we are allowed to see how the plot develops in the minds of the writers.
My comment:
Petty bourgeois resistance to finance capitalism, humour, post modernist attitude to reality. Honesty and warmth in portraying the struggle for intimacy and trust, with a democratic message of solidarity for the underdogs of the capitalist system. But they are not the square-jawed vanguard of the proletariat.
Chris Burford
London