Review Chekhov, but in France, and With Cellphones The most ruthless way of gauging to what degree a classic play is really timeless may be to set it in the present and watch where its pieces tumble. “La Petite Lili,” the French filmmaker Claude Miller’s ingeniously freewheeling adaptation of “The Seagull,” drags Chekhov’s 1895 play…
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La Petite Lili (2004)
When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili–a sexy young local girl–to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress…