| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Perhaps Jean Renoir was always going to make this film: The impressionistic cinematography being highly reminiscent of his father’s (Auguste Renoir’s) paintings. And the actors shot in natural surroundings amounts to a hymn to, and love for, the nature he feels the genetic engineering story-line inevitably betrays.
A dialectic of many contrasts: Artificial insemination/sexual love; emotion/reason & repression; western civilization/anarchy; life/death; men/women; science/humanism & religion; etc. All false dichotomies satirized by Renoir in saying that “All is explicable to science” is a fascist attempt to reduce “All” to science.
This is bucolic anti-science-fiction in which the delightful Catherine ROUVEL is the Junoesque exemplar of the director’s vision of untamable humanity who convinces the cold scientist to warm up.
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