Lumière (film)

Lumière (English: Light) is a French drama film written and directed by Jeanne Moreau. The semi-autobiographical film is about the friendship between four actresses. It is credited as being one of the first films to focus on female friendship.[3]

Lumière
Directed byJeanne Moreau
Screenplay byJeanne Moreau
Produced byClaire Duval
StarringLucia Bosè
Francine Racette
Keith Carradine
Jeanne Moreau
François Simon
Bruno Ganz
Niels Arestrup
Francis Huster
CinematographyRicardo Aronovich
Edited byAlbert Jurgenson
Music byAstor Piazzolla
Distributed byGaumont Film Company
Release date
  • 24 March 1976 (1976-03-24)
[1]
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$760 000[2]

Plot

Sarah is an actress who is nearing 40. She invites Laura, her best friend of the past sixteen years, along with two other women, Caroline and Julienne, to a vacation retreat in Provence. Each woman is at a critical point in her life; Sarah has broken up with her longtime partner, while Laura is pregnant but her husband is carrying on an affair with another woman. Caroline is in an unhappy relationship, and Julienne is being pursued by an American actor.

Cast

Reception

Lumière received critical acclaim.[4] Critic Roger Ebert wrote positively of the film, commenting "as the strands of [Moreau's] story become clear and we begin to know the characters, the movie grows into a simple and strong emotional statement."[5]

In a retrospective review, Richard Brody of The New Yorker wrote,

Working with the cinematographer Ricardo Aronovich, [Moreau] develops a gliding, peering, shifting aesthetic to match the glossy surfaces with which she conveys shuddering depths of feeling. The camera roves around the actors, capturing the agitation within their controlled gestures, suggesting the elegance of leisure and luxury within which high adventures of passion, pleasure, and power—of self-creation and self-definition—play out.[6]

Accolades
YearAwardCategoryRecipientResult
1976 Chicago International Film Festival Grand Prize (Best Feature) Jeanne Moreau Nominated
Taormina Film Fest Golden Charybdis Jeanne Moreau Nominated
1977 César Award Best Supporting Actress Francine Racette Nominated

References
  1. "Lumiere (1976) - IMDb". IMDb.
  2. "Lumière (1976) - JPBox-Office".
  3. James, Caryn (1994-02-25). "A Femme Fatale For the Ages". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  4. Eder, Richard (1976-11-15). "Jeanne Moreau's 'Lumier' Is Dazzling:Film on Women Written and Directed by the Actress, Who Stars". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  5. Ebert, Roger (January 4, 1977). "Lumiere movie review and film summary (1977)". Rogerebert.com. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  6. Brody, Richard (2017-08-08). "Jeanne Moreau's "Lumière" Deserves to Be Revived". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
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