chiramku: Demi-tarif (2003)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391919/

An intimite look into the life of three neglected children. Two sisters and a brother, each from different fathers share an appartment in Paris without a mother. The children expect her, they love her - sporadically she comes in the night and has left again in the morning.

They don't like going to school. Sometimes when it gets dark they run into the streets naked, intentionally to catch a flu so they don't have to go to school. We follow the children as they steal, beg and lie their way through childhood, purposely to evade adults and their influences, and as a result turning us viewers into voyeurs for about an hour. A chilling experience.

Actress Isild Le Besco (Girls Can't Swim) makes her feature debut as a director with Demi-Tarif (Half-Price). The movie, shot on digital video on a miniscule budget, garnered attention in its native France after renowned filmmaker Chris Marker compared the experience of seeing it to the experience he and his friends had upon seeing Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless for the first time.

Demi-Tarif follows the low-key adventures of three young siblings, Romeo (Kolia Litscher), Louna (Lila Salet), and the youngest, Leo (Cindy David), left on their own in a rundown Paris apartment. One of them narrates, wistfully explaining how their mother abandoned them and calls them once in a while to see how they are doing or tell them she loves them. The three kids do as they please, roaming the streets, running out of restaurants without paying for food, and shoplifting from the local grocery store. They eat whatever and whenever they want, gorging themselves on sweets. They beg for change on the Metro and show up late for school in tattered, dirty clothes.

All the while, they try to keep the fact that they are alone a secret from the world of adults. Demi-Tarif had its U.S. premiere at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival.

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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Demi-tarif (2003)

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