Strayed
by André Téchiné
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Actor: Clémence Meyer, Emmanuelle Béart, Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Samuel LabartheDirector: André Téchiné
Writer: André Téchiné
Producer: Adam Betteridge
Producer: Alex Marshall
Producer: David Rogers
Producer: Jason Piette
Producer: Jean-Pierre Ramsay-Levi
Producer: Jonathan Vanger
Writer: Gilles Perrault
Writer: Gilles Taurand
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-23
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Fox Lorber
DVD Reviews of Strayed
DVD Review: Strayed in the Forest: Love Story with Beauty and Resonance
Summary: 4 Stars
Two great things about 'Strayed' are Emmauelle Beart and Gaspard Ulliel. Perhaps Beart is more famous than Ulliel, but French cinema fans remember Gaspard Ulliel in 'A Very Long Engagement' in which he played the love of Audrey Tautou's heroine. Compare the two characters he plays, and you will know that he is a real thing, a real talent who is on the way to an international fame.
As to the film itself, 'Strayed' is set in 1940, the earlier days of German occupaton in France. Based on a novel "La Garcon aux yeux gris," the film is about a widowed teacher Odile (Beart) and her two children, who escape from the attack by a German aircraft in the quiet forest. There they meet a 17-year-old boy Yvan (Ulliel), and the four characters seeks for a temporary haven in a deserted mansion among the woods, where the time has stopped eternally.
Now it's not hard for us to anticipate what we see in this short film (about 90 minutes). Despite the differences, the relations between Odile and Yvan get more emotional as the story unfolds. But Techine doesn't stop there, for the two children of Odile (one boy and one girl) are looking for something from Yvan, who, to them, is a superior being. All these tensions are expressed, or suggested, in the seemingly quiet, episodic story. Everything is understated, but it is surely there.
[SUPERB ACTING] Without Beart and Ulliel, 'Strayed' could not be as good as it is. Fans of Emmanuelle Beart, who resented the misuse of her beauty in 'Mission Impossible' (like me), should watch this. Her excellent acting gives a life to the nervous character of Odile. And Ulliel literally becomes Yvan, a curious blend of street-smart wisdom and childlike innocence.
'Strayed' is the second colaboration of Techine and Beart (the first was 'J'embrasse pas' made in 1991). One good thing about Techine's films is that he shows the best side of the leading ladies, and 'Strayed' is no exception. My only complaint is that 'Strayed' should be better with a longer running time. After watching this film second time, I still find the ending too sudden and disappointing. Well, but I know, you may feel differently.
The fact that 'Strayed' is a French film might make you feel this is just another tedious, pretentious, European art-house nonsense that you cannot understand, but say that you do understand. No, that's not true. Techine doesn't despise mysteries and melodramas, and you can watch 'Strayed' as well-made love romance, with authentic feelings about the people and the place. As such it is first-rate.
Description of Strayed
DVD extras include: 16x9 anamorphic, 5.1 sound, interviews with Andre Techine, Gaspard Ulliel & Gilles Perrault, subtitle control, storyboards, photo gallery. Set in 1940 at the beginning of France's occupation by the Germans, Strayed stars French film icon Emmanuelle Béart (Nathalie, 8 Women) as Odile, a young and beautiful widow fleeing Paris with her two children. When German planes bomb the road filled with refugees, Odile's car is destroyed and the three must escape into the woods. There they encounter Yvan (sexy newcomer Gaspard Ulliel - Brotherhood of the Wolf), a 17 year-old illiterate delinquent whose survival skills and charm soon prove indispensable. They soon take shelter in an abandoned house and become a makeshift family. Odile, at once suspicious of and attracted to the mysterious stranger, soon finds herself at the center of a fascinating set of personal and sexual dynamics. One of the most respected filmmakers in France, André Téchiné (Wild Reeds, Rendez-Vous) once again, builds on his reputation as one of the most sensitive and intelligent filmmakers working today.Emmanuelle Béart gives another beautiful performance in this fable-like story of World War II. She plays a widow with two children in tow; escaping from Paris, their car is bombed in the countryside and they stagger into the woods along with a rough, savvy teenage boy (the feral Gaspard Ulliel). Their idyll in an abandoned chateau takes up the remainder of the film, as various tensions simmer within this ad hoc family unit. Director Andre Techine (Wild Reeds, Scene of the Crime) is a master of the small, telling moment and the frailty of people in a natural landscape. He also proves, in the riveting sequence of Germans attacking the line of refugees, that he could probably make a great action film if he cared to. Along with Béart's sensuality, his treatment of hushed interiors and sympathy for the imagination of children creates an intimate arena for these lost souls. --Robert Horton
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