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Who had the money to pay for them?
Assayas must have seen his future in his past: Eureka!
To reach his Eden involves an attempt at self-obliteration.
The teen protagonists, Christine (Virginie Ledoyen) and Gilles (Cyprien Fouquet), are attractive delinquents.
His family is more stable but he simply doesnt speak their language.
Its not that the kids and adults are in conflict.
Its that they inhabit different realms, different time-space continuums.
The grown-ups beloved Rousseau and Caravaggio mean nothing to Gilles.
Hed rather shoplift a bunch of albums and play with sticks of dynamite.
ButCold Wateris always on the brink of an explosion.
Beausoleil cant hold her.
Christine and Gilles are dancing and kissing lightly by themselves when we get to Leonard Cohens Avalanche.
As the song with its haunting organ continues, Christine and Gilles take off for a distant artist commune.
Their journey ends along a frigid, rushing river a blue-gray that chills your bones.
He has gotten more daring, more inventive, more sophisticated in his formal tricks.
ButCold Waterhas the kind of emotional purity that puts it in a class by itself.
Its blue fog envelops you.
