Life of Riley

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Stuart McLean

Aimer, Boire et Chanter
Certificate: 12
Running Time: 108 Mins
Retail Price: TBA
Release Date: 06/03/2014
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering
news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live. Life begins to come apart at the seams –
not just for Kathryn, who was once George’s partner, but also for her friends Tamara and Monica. The full force of the
emotional turmoil they experienced in their youth and their long-buried dreams are rekindled. Much to the chagrin of
their respectable, middle-class husbands, the women begin to argue about which of them should be allowed to
accompany George on a final journey …
After Smoking/No Smoking (1993) and Private Fears in Public Places (2006), this is the late Alain Resnais’s third
adaptation of a work by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn and the great master’s last film. By confining the action to
an artificial, almost entirely studio-bound world, he succeeds in creating a tragicomic theatre of vanities. Employing the
ironic distance of a sage observer of human nature, Resnais ponders the power of love and desire and in doing so
enables his characters, driven by their longings, hopes and obsessions, to leave the beaten track for once.

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