Call Me Agostino
Known as the co-screenwirter of around ten films by Jacques Rivette between 1989 and 2009, Christine Laurent also directed a few films characterized by a polished writing and a playful approach to directing, based on her experience as a set designer. We are showing her penultimate film, preserved in our collections.
Hélène, Marianne, lovers... One dreams and asks questions. The other pushes ahead and finds solutions. Paris, city of lights, its statues, its passageways, its dead ends, the Louvre, and an artisan's workshop, such as still exist in a few places, sketch out the setting for this film. Everything is a little serious, even if everything can be laughed at.
Christine Laurent
Christine Laurent is an actress, filmmaker, screenwriter, set designer, and costume designer. She studied drawing and painting at the Académie Julian before training in set and costume design, and theater management at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre. In the 1970s, she collaborated with the opera houses in Cologne and Lyon, as well as the English National Opera in London. From 1989 to 2009, she wrote nine screenplays for Jacques Rivette. From 1994 to 2009, Luís Miguel Cintra invited her to direct at the Cornucópia Theatre in Lisbon. She also designed the sets and costumes for several films of her husband's films, René Allio. In the words of film critic Marcos Uzal, Christine Laurent was a “woman of immense culture and multiple talents, who loved and worked in the most beautiful margins of French cinema.”
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