The last time I saw Paris was in Eric Rohmer's "Rendez-Vous." Now I've revisited in "While the Cat's Away (Chacun cherche son chat)."
It's "Seinfeld"-ian in that nothing really happens (and sometimes its 95 minutes do drag) but it's a wonderful slice of urban life in a gentrifying neighborhood as residents occupy different eco-systems in the same locality.
It could easily be re-made on the Upper West Side of NYC, or other city neighborhoods.
It is quite a lovely little movie. Many of the actors are non-professionals that really are their neighborhood's local color characters.
However, at last night's showing someone brought their kids thinking because it had an animal in the title it was appropriate. I did not think so - there are visuals and discussion of explicit sex (hetero- and homosexual) as well as sexual harassment threats that I do not think are appropriate for children.
(originally written 7/24/1997)
It's "Seinfeld"-ian in that nothing really happens (and sometimes its 95 minutes do drag) but it's a wonderful slice of urban life in a gentrifying neighborhood as residents occupy different eco-systems in the same locality.
It could easily be re-made on the Upper West Side of NYC, or other city neighborhoods.
It is quite a lovely little movie. Many of the actors are non-professionals that really are their neighborhood's local color characters.
However, at last night's showing someone brought their kids thinking because it had an animal in the title it was appropriate. I did not think so - there are visuals and discussion of explicit sex (hetero- and homosexual) as well as sexual harassment threats that I do not think are appropriate for children.
(originally written 7/24/1997)