No Rest for the Brave

Starring:No Rest for the Brave
Studio: TLA Releasing
Product Type: DVD

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Take a coming-of-age story, douse it in French existentialism, mix in plenty of wit, spice it liberally with vivid imagery, and the refreshingly original No Rest for the Brave is what you'd get. A scintillating metaphysical tale, the film follows the picaresque adventures of Basile, an angst-ridden French teenager who is convinced that he will die if he falls asleep. This leads him on a road trip that becomes a hallucinatory odyssey as Basile encounters murder, sex and intrigue - assuming that some or all of it isn't a dream. Whether Basile's excursion is reality or fantasy, innocent or malevolent, grand ideas mesh with bizarre occurrences to create a fascinating, surreal journey of discovery, chance and mystery.

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Running Time 104 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Existential French Coming of Age Nightmare

No Rest for the Brave
Starring: Vincent Martin , Thomas Suire , Thomas Blanchard , Laurent Soffiati , and Pierre-Maurice Nouvel
Director: Alain Guiraudie
Manufacturer: TLA Releasing
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0007R4TMG
Release Date: 2005-04-19

Product Description

Take a coming-of-age story, douse it in French existentialism, mix in plenty of wit, spice it liberally with vivid imagery, and the refreshingly original No Rest for the Brave is what you'd get. A scintillating metaphysical tale, the film follows the picaresque adventures of Basile, an angst-ridden French teenager who is convinced that he will die if he falls asleep. This leads him on a road trip that becomes a hallucinatory odyssey as Basile encounters murder, sex and intrigue - assuming that some or all of it isn't a dream. Whether Basile's excursion is reality or fantasy, innocent or malevolent, grand ideas mesh with bizarre occurrences to create a fascinating, surreal journey of discovery, chance and mystery.

System Requirements:

Running Time 104 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Existential French Coming of Age Nightmare.......2005-05-26

One of the hardest things for humans to do is to explain a dream and make it interesting. Herein lies the biggest problem of "No Rest for the Brave." Rare is the viewer who will make it to the end of this oddly beautiful but frustrating film. First, for the non-native French speaker, this is a film heavy on the dialog - lots of it and it comes at you machine gun fast which translates into being forced to read constantly and as fast as you can.

In a nutshell "No Rest" tells the story of a boy - Basille (also with an alter-ego called Hector) a 16 year old who believes he's approaching the penultimate sleep - one more night with his eyes closed and he will die. So, sleep deprived, he is forever in a state of semi-consciousness living more in a dream state than the real world. It becomes increasingly difficult (if not downright impossible) to figure out what is real and what isn't. Does Basille really kill an entire village? Is he having an affair with a 60 year old man? Does he really drive around in an airplane he can't get off the ground? What is the significance of "little red balls?" Is there really an improper "season" for eating foie gras? If one allows themselves to fall into this world, the difference between reality and dreaming ultimately doesn't matter.

Director Alain Guiraudie creates a beautiful, surreal existential plane wherein the Bassile and those who populate his life (and dreams) reside. There are images that are breathtakingly beautiful - such as Basille's red plane's attempted take off, or the image of him wildly, violently dancing 70's punk style to an acoustic guitar song in a brightly lit pool hall.

I thought I would gouge my eyes out after 20 minutes or so, but once I "let go" and just watched it on its own terms and fell in love with this oddball, beautiful picture.

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