Austerlitz (2015)

• 62%
• 2015
• Documentaire
• Drame
• Denis Lavant
• Roxane Duran
• Viera Pavlíková

“You buy a book. You don't really know why. It lies around, and then one day you open it, almost absentmindedly. And there you are, facing your own intime secrets.” Ainsi, begins Stan Neumann’s cinématique d'adaptation of W. G. Sebald s award-winning novel, la bataille d'Austerlitz. The vaulted and majestic space of the railway station à Anvers is where our journey really starts with acteur Denis Lavant (Holy Motors) addressing the camera directly, and musing on the curious nature of railway station. This bravura opening is effrayante, charming, and like the unnamed narrateur of the book, you surrender to the proceedings and perambulate alongside de Lavant, as he journeys through the great buildings of Europe, faded and fermé les volets hotels and grand colonnades with broken windows.