Nénette and Boni

MOVIE #1,083 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.28.23 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝙻𝙰𝙸𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙴𝙽𝙸𝚂 (𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑: [𝚍ə𝚗𝚒];) 𝙳𝙸𝚁𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙾𝚁 𝙵𝙾𝙲𝚄𝚂 Above all else, Denis just drops you into a world. There’s not much preamble or setup. You have to figure it out for yourself. In this sense, the camera doesn’t really exist in any traditional way. One second Vincent Gallo is dressed like a sailor boy (see below) and the next our titular leads are blowing their shithead dad’s brains out and fleeing on a motorcycle. Some of this is clearly the work of a demented imagination and/or dreaming but the points of delineation are not marked in a familiar fashion. Everything feels like an extension of Boni’s psyche (psychosis?) but that’s not quite right either. The audience is meant to float in an ether along the periphery of these characters and despite the lack of conventional development, they’re as rich and colorful as any you’ll likely come across.

Mothers and sons. Fathers and daughters. There’s some truly freudian shit here. This movie begs you to ask questions nobody really wants to know the answers to.

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Nénette and Boni (French: Nénette et Boni) is a 1996 French drama film directed by Claire Denis, written by Denis in collaboration with Jean-Pol Fargeau. It was released on January 29, 1996.