Cocktail Molotov
Cocktail Molotov | |
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Directed by | Francois Cluzet |
Cinematography | Philippe Rousellot |
Edited by | Joële Van Effenterre |
Music by | Yves Simon |
Distributed by | Agence méditerranéenne de location de films (AMLF) |
Release date |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | $3.5 million[1] |
Cocktail Molotov is a 1980 French
Plot
Seventeen-year-old middle-class Anne (Elise Caron), runs away with her working-class boyfriend Frederic (Philippe Lebas) and his friend Bruno (Francois Cluzet) after a violent fight with her mother.
Cast
- Elise Caron as Anne
- Philippe Lebas as Frederic
- Francois Cluzetas Bruno
- Genevieve Fontanelas Anne's mother
- Henri Garcin as Anne's Stepfather
- Michel Puterflamas Anne's Father
- Jenny Cleve as Frederic's Mother
- Armando Brancia as Frederic's Father
- Malene Sveinbjornsson as Anne's Little Sister
- Stefania Cassini as Anna-Maria
- Frederique Meininger as Doctor
- Patrick Chesnais as Trucker
- Hélène Vincent as The diplomat's wife
Reception
Cocktail Molotov did not do as well as Peppermint Soda, Kurys' critically acclaimed first feature released three years earlier.[7][8] Film studies scholar Carrie Tarr has written that audiences may have been confused by Kurys treatment of May '68 as nearly devoid of protest and politics, instead focusing on an explicitly female personal drama, as opposed to the generally male-centered view of the student revolts. She also notes that Kurys had had to rewrite the script due to budget constraints which made reenacting the barricading of Paris streets impossible, and further cut explicitly political scenes out in the editing process to further emphasize the teenagers' story.[9] Perhaps in a reaction to its lack of political content, Vincent Canby's 1981 review in The New York Times called the film "a nearly perfect example of the kind of French film that apotheosizes middle-class values while pretending to question them".[10] While Tarr writes that the film does not depict abortion, love triangles, or the subjectivity of the female central character as well as other films,[11] its autobiographical elements, its pairing of personal narrative with larger, historical events[12] and other connections with the rest of Kurys' filmography mark it as an essential part of her work as auteur.[13]
Notes
References
- Canby, Vincent (2015). "NY Times: 'Cocktail Molotov'". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. Women Film Directors: an International Bio-critical Dictionary. Greenwood Press, Westport, 1995.
- Tarr, Carrie. Diane Kurys. Manchester University Press, New York, 1999.
- Tarr, Carrie.Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers ed. by Yvonne Tasker. Rutledge, New York, 2002.
External links
- Cocktail Molotov at IMDb