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<\/a><\/p>\nAU REVOIR L\u2019\u00c9T\u00c9<\/strong> A light comedy of manners played out during 10 days in a seaside town, Au revoir l\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 is a nicely played rondo of human behavior that\u2019s amazingly mature for a writer-director who\u2019s still in his early thirties. With its teenage central character Sakuko (a strikingly assured Fumi Nikaido), who philosophically observes the small hypocrisies and lies by the adults around her, as well as goes through a small learning experience of her own, Au revoir l\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 echoes Eric Rohmer\u2019s films, especially Pauline at the Beach (1983). And when Sakuko\u2019s 10 days of \u201csummer holiday\u201d suddenly ends, so too does the movie. No one has changed, life goes on, eternal truths remain out of reach. But director Fukada doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019s just aping an established genre. From its acceptance of various social norms to the way in which the protagonists interact (or, more often, avoid confrontation), the film is authentically Japanese, and is the better for it.<\/p>\n
\n\u307b\u3068\u308a\u306e\u6714\u5b50 | KOJI FUKADA, 2013
\nJAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 125 MINUTES
\nU.S. Premiere. Q&A with actress Fumi Nikaido.<\/p>\n