Sep 22, 2016 a very smart film from a very smart firsttime feature director. A comingofage comedy about a ditzy french twentysomething looking for meaning in her life sounds like nothing new but first time director rachel lang s baden baden is utterly. With her short hair, vests and shorts, salome richard makes a compellingly unconventional heroine, whose wit, insecurity and unisexuality epitomises langs. Berlinales forum, willfully misleads anyone thinking the film itself is in. A comingofage comedy about a ditzy french twentysomething looking for meaning in her life sounds like nothing new but first time director rachel langs baden baden is utterly.
With an incredible performance by salome richards, langs end to the ana trilogy is awkward, charming, devastating, and ultimately hopeful. A surprisingly moving summertime drama from firsttime french writerdirector rachel lang. Baden, the title of rachel langs feature debut that world premiered in. On arrival, her boss shouts in her face aggressively. In rachel langs debutfilm baden baden gluck aus dem baumarkt. After her acclaimed shorts, comes this awardwinning debut feature from belgian filmmaker rachel lang. After a failed attempt at working on a foreign film set, 26 yearold ana returns to her hometown of strasbourg. A very smart film from a very smart firsttime feature director. Nov 22, 2016 baden baden directed by rachel lang november 25december 1 at anthology film archives. White turnips make it hard to sleep 2011 was the second part of a trilogy, followed by baden baden 2016 rachel s first feature which marked the end of the trilogy. Rachel lang to attend cinemart with mon legionnaire. Baden, the title of rachel langs feature debut that world premiered in berlinales forum, willfully misleads anyone thinking the film itself is in any way connected with the famous german.
Charts the trials and tribulations of ana, a freespirited 26 yearold returning home to. Written and directed by 32yearold rachel lang, baden baden has an easy swing, deceptively simple visual compositions and. White turnips make it hard to sleep 2011 was the second part of a trilogy. For you i will fight pour toi je ferai bataille by. Rachel lang or rachel white is an antivillain of the rage. At its finest moments baden baden is an extremely vibrant story that shows beautiful character through its flawed protagonist. In baden baden, an aimless 26yearold woman returns to her hometown of strasbourg, reconnecting. Feb 26, 2016 baden, the title of rachel langs feature debut that world premiered in berlinales forum, willfully misleads anyone thinking the film itself is in any way connected with the famous german. Written and directed by rachel lang, the film follows a young woman struggling to make sense of her life when she returns home to the germanfrench border town of strasbourg. The final, featurelength film in rachel langs ana trilogy, this has a sharper eye for composition and cinematography but is otherwise as easygoing. A free spirit remains undaunted in baden baden the. Nov 24, 2016 this rachel lang film is light on narrative, but features a worthy performance by salome richard. In her feature film debut writerdirector rachel lang portraits young, reckless and aimless ana, a 26 year old girl who steals a car from the company she works for. Baden is supported by the cnc french film board and cine plus, the movie bouquet of gallic paytv giant canal plus.
French filmmaker rachel langs wonderful first feature baden baden reminded me, watching, of a running gag in seinfeld. Carrie 2, a film produced in 1999 by katt shea, that was the sequel to brian depalmas 1976 film carrie. Avec salome richard, claude gensac, zabou breitman, swann arlaud, olivier chantreau. Instead, it is a pun on the word bath appropriate, as much of the film focuses on guileless free spirit ana salome richard and her selfmotivated mission to replace her grandmothers tub with a shower. The final, featurelength film in rachel lang s ana trilogy, this has a sharper eye for composition and cinematography but is otherwise as easygoing and lowkey as its short predecessors.
It combines genuine laughoutloud moments with a deftly. Baden baden, the first feature from the writerdirector rachel lang the title refers. Ana salome richard, the twentysomething heroine of rachel langs ebullient and substantial first feature, baden baden, is drifting through her time of unlearninga heady and precarious period, often between youth and adulthood, when all the moral lessons of childhood. Baden baden en streaming complet realise par rachel lang ii avec salome richard, claude gensac. Over the course of a summer, during which a broken love affair. Jan 27, 2016 apres une experience ratee sur le tournage dun film a letranger, ana, 26 ans, retourne a strasbourg, sa ville natale. Tvs famous show about nothing, a nearly apt description for lang. Shes working as a driver on a film set, and shes not very good at it.
French director rachel langs debut feature baden baden is a look at a woman navigating a quarter life crisis. And yet this debut feature from french director rachel lang is an absolute treat. Sep 23, 2016 d espite what its title might suggest, rachel langs baden baden has little to do with the quaint german spa town. Written and directed by 32yearold rachel lang, baden baden has an easy swing, deceptively simple visual compositions and dreamlike. Ana salome richard is a chaotically disorganised driver on a movie. When ana, 24 years old, finishes a job she hates as runner on a big film shoot in belgium, she makes an impulse decision to change her plans. With salome richard, claude gensac, lazare gousseau, swann arlaud. Sep 22, 2016 french filmmaker rachel langs wonderful first feature baden baden reminded me, watching, of a running gag in seinfeld. Rachel lang to attend cinemart with mon legionnaire cineuropa.
Apres une experience ratee sur le tournage dun film a letranger, ana, 26 ans, retourne. The second feature film project by the director of baden baden is produced by the french outfit chevaldeuxtrois. Rachel lang celebrity profile check out the latest rachel lang photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. In rachel langs impressive feature film debut, 26yearold ana returns home to strasbourg in a purloined porsche to hang out with.
This year, the slate also included baden baden, a lighthearted francobelgian coproduction that recently opened in new york at the anthology film archives. Nov 22, 2016 rachel langs baden baden offers a beautifully aimless study of nearadulthood. Charts the trials and tribulations of ana, a freespirited 26 yearold returning home to strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place. Ana, 26 years old, finishes a job she hates as runner on a big film shoot in. Rachel langs baden baden begins as the protagonist ana finds her way to the film set where she works. Rachel is the paternal halfsister of carrie white that she makes fun of, because carries father ralph white left her mother, margaret, for another woman carrie mentioned this in the first movie. Baden baden is a 2016 frenchbelgian dramedy film written and directed by rachel lang. This rachel lang film is light on narrative, but features a worthy performance by salome richard. Rachel lang s baden baden begins as the protagonist ana finds her way to the film set where she works. Feb 12, 2016 french director rachel lang premiered her debut feature in berlins forum sidebar. Rachel langs baden baden offers a beautifully aimless. French director rachel lang premiered her debut feature in berlins forum sidebar.
Tvs famous show about nothing, a nearly apt description for. Baden baden directed by rachel lang november 25december 1 at anthology film archives. In baden baden, an aimless 26yearold woman returns to her hometown of strasbourg, reconnecting with old. When ana, 26 years old, finishes a job she hates as runner on a big film shoot in belgium, she makes an impulse decision to change her plans to return to london and instead, keeps the productions rental car and heads to strasbourg, the town she grew up in. Her graduation short film for you i will fight 2010 was awarded the silver leopard at the locarno film festival. Charts the trials and tribulations of ana, a freespirited 26 yearold returning home to strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere. Apres une experience ratee sur le tournage dun film a letranger, ana, 26 ans, retourne a strasbourg, sa ville natale. Over the scorching summer that follows, she decides to replace her grandmothers bathtub with a walkin shower, eat peas and carrots with ketchup, drive a porsche, harvest plums, lose her drivers license, sleep with her best friend and get back together with her ex.
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