À demain
1992 Comedy / Drama
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Summary
Pierre looks back on his childhood with affection. His sanctuary is his bedroom
in a large house in Paris, where he lives with his sister, parents, his grandparents,
and his great-grandmother. His father and grandfather each run a medical practice
from the house, whilst his grandmother, Tété, provides acupuncture treatment.
Apart from a few domestic crises, Pierre’s childhood is a happy one, filled with precious
moments and treasured memories, particularly of his dying grandmother.
Review
À demain is one of those sweetly nostalgic
auto-biographical films which you know you ought to hate and yet somehow you can’t.
In spite of its twee narrative style and simplistic direction, the film is strangely charming,
offering an endearing portrait of a happy middleclass family in the early 1960s.
Some moments of dramatic comedy punctuate the lives of a nauseatingly functional family,
but there are some sequences with real emotion. Most memorable are the understated
yet very moving heart-to-heart scenes with the young Pierre and his grandmother (played
with beautiful sincerity by Jeanne Moreau). The latter’s attempts to prepare the
young boy for her impending death are intensely poignant, all the more so for the direct,
unsentimental manner in which they are played.
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