Les Choses de la vie (1970)
July 20, 2011 – 03:41
This evening I escaped the New Vague City with Claude Sautet’s Les choses de la vie; starring Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider and the gorgeous Lea Massari who stole my heart ages ago in Le souffle au coeur by Louis Malle. She was also in L’avventura as the missing girl. The film is about the abstraction of disparate things that preoccupy us, including people, from the spirit of life by means of recounting a man’s demise in a car accident. Could be one of the most beautiful death scenes in cinema, as well as the filming of a car crash.
