LIFE AS IT GOES
Jean-Henri Meunier
2007 Appeared in the journal Sequences
Jean-Henri Meunier is a director with experience mainly worked for TV directing portraits of musicians such as Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Dizzy Gillespie, Khaled and Jacques Higelin. It seems he got sick and that he and his family had left Paris one day in favor of Aveyron flanks. Hence
shock and envy of testimony, while listening to his new neighbors had much more to do with his maestro behind the scenes meetings, knowledge and verve well articulated. In fact, this Life as it goes is in line for movies that could almost be described as slow docs, these slices of life communal gleaned over a long period of time, like the recent Be and to Have or our Roger Toupin, grocer varieties.
To fully appreciate this secluded environment, we must ignore the director's propensity to play the bucolic, ensuring its shamelessly swoon towards the "little people" animating the municipal band, divided mainly between retirees and small pleasures of conscientious non-the-penny poeticizing the virtues of Nature, and silverware of idleness.
Between all that, Miller throws on his way postcard shots on the fly and other scenes of animal life, gardening about one more hay than grain, he is amazed at each burst of these so picturesque rural, even we do not drink we spare the most innocuous words that confuses Meunier like any good citizen desensitized with the philosophy of terroir. Where
Nicolas Philibert succeeded, by judicious choice of mounting and characters, to achieve the balance between representation and criticism of village manners in a broader context (universal education), Miller is content to close apology climate country as a remedy to our latent need for authenticity as global citizens. Ultimately, true freedom remains a figment of the imagination, regardless of the ground we tread.
© 2007 Charles-Stéphane Roy
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