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No Rest for the Brave
(Pas de repos pour les braves)

Director in Person
Screening on Film
$12 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Alain Guiraudie.
With Thomas Suire, Thomas Blanchard, Laurent Soffiati.
Austria/France, 2003, 35mm, color, 104 min.
French with English subtitles.

Guiraudie’s first full-length feature film follows a young man, warned in a dream that he’ll die the next time he wakes up, as he wanders between two towns as well as between reality and fantasy. Is he a mass murderer on the run from a bounty hunter, or is he the lover of a much older man in the picturesque countryside? Eventually, this matrix of incompatible but intersecting realities and shaggy-dog narratives becomes a road movie as hunter and hunted switch roles. The most surrealistic of Guiraudie’s films, No Rest for the Brave resembles a cross between Cocteau and Carax, its main character a male Alice who’s fallen down a wormhole, not chasing a White Rabbit but running from death, the little death of the workaday world.

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