You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

Renowned dramatist Antoine d’Anthac arranges to have friends who appeared in his play Eurydice come together to participate in his funeral and to see a performance of the play by an avant-garde acting company. Do love, life, death, and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? Those who come to fulfill their departed friend’s final wish will have a chance to decide. At almost 90, Alain Resnais has shot another of his surprising movies. Although the picture draws on two plays by Jean Anouilh, the filmmaker isn’t interested in a dialogue between theater and film. His production becomes an opportunity for reflection, for a play between real life and the stage, between the modern and the classic. But it is also a means of referencing his earlier work and the questions that remain unanswered. Perhaps with this film the great French artist is seeking to close his more than 50-year career surrounded by the actors he loves. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)