{"id":1738,"date":"2026-04-19T17:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:51:16","slug":"colours-of-time-thursday-april-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/19\/colours-of-time-thursday-april-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Colours of Time. Thursday, April 23rd."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1184626089?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Small Things Like These (2024) trailer\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Original Title: La venue de l&#8217;avenir<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director: C\u00e9dric Klapisch \/ Year: 2025 \/ Color \/ French language \/ English subtitles \/ MPA rating: Not rated \/ Runtime: 124 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A country girl\u2019s search for answers in the belle \u00e9poque is ingeniously intercut with the adventures of her ragtag descendants in C\u00e9dric Klapisch\u2019s film.<br><br>The original French title of C\u00e9dric Klapisch\u2019s new film is La Venue de L\u2019Avenir, or The Arrival of the Future; it is an entertaining sentimental fantasy, a chocolate-boxy ensemble picture in Klapisch\u2019s distinctive style, inventing a romantic backstory to the career of Claude Monet and his contemporary, the pioneering photographer F\u00e9lix Nadar.<br><br>These two whiskery bohemians are effectively involved in a Mamma Mia-type paternity puzzle concerning the drama\u2019s female lead. Ad\u00e8le (Suzanne Lindon) is a fictional young woman who during the belle \u00e9poque makes a fateful journey to find her errant mother in Paris, leaving behind her sweetheart and the village where she was brought up, in the countryside near Monet\u2019s home town of Le Havre. Her life and times are rediscovered by her descendants in the present day, and we intercut enjoyably between past and present.<br><br>For all that this film is about the revolutionary and disruptive business of art, it takes a pretty un-subversive view of art and artists, compatible with the museum gift shop. But I have to admit, it\u2019s executed with brio and comic gusto \u2013 the \u201cpast\u201d sections, anyway \u2013 and Lindon\u2019s performance has charm.<br><br>In the present day, dozens of descendants of Ad\u00e8le are contacted by the lawyers and PRs working for a property company that wants to build a vast new shopping mall, which would mean bulldozing Ad\u00e8le\u2019s derelict cottage, closed up since 1944. This garrulous ragtag bunch \u2013 including teacher Abdelkrim (Zinedine Soualem), fashion photographer Seb (Abraham Wapler), executive C\u00e9line (Julia Piaton) and beekeeper Guy (Vincent Macaigne) \u2013 need to give their collective consent. Intrigued by their inheritance, they crowbar their way into the dusty cottage to find a veritable Tutankhamun tomb of historical secrets: photos, letters and even what might be a painting.<br><br>Their detective work is interspersed, often ingeniously, with what Ad\u00e8le in her own day discovers about her errant mother, Odette (Sara Giraudeau), and what she has been doing in Paris all these years to get the money she has been sending back to Ad\u00e8le. It all comes to a wacky climax when our present-day claimants have an Ayahuasca psychoactive experience, which sends them back in time to encounter these historical culture icons in person at an exhibition, resulting in Victor Hugo making improper advances towards C\u00e9line. It\u2019s the kind of French movie for which you\u2019ll need a sweet tooth, but it\u2019s tasty.<br><br>Review by Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31411349\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Title: La venue de l&#8217;avenir Director: C\u00e9dric Klapisch \/ Year: 2025 \/ Color \/ French language \/ English subtitles \/ MPA rating: Not rated \/ Runtime: 124 min A country girl\u2019s search for answers in the belle \u00e9poque is ingeniously intercut with the adventures of her ragtag descendants in C\u00e9dric Klapisch\u2019s film. 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