Noemie Lvovsky is a fully paid-up member of what is, for me, a very elite group who cannot be feted highly enough; French female directors, virtually all of whom - Danielle Thompson, Eleanore Faucher, Alexander Leclerc also write or co-write their own screenplays plus some - Nicole Garcia, Agnes Joui, Valerie Lemercier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - are actually triple threats inasmuch as they are happy to direct themselves acting in self- penned screenplays, whilst still others like Tony Marshall, Ann Fontaine, Marion Vernoux, have been and/or are still acting for other directors. I should perhaps add that all of the above are content to turn out 'mainstream' films leaving the 'intellectual' fodder to the likes of Marguerite Duras, Clair Denis and other poster girls of the Academic-Pseud axis. Camille Redouble marks the first time Lvovsky has directed herself in her own screenplay - though she has, of course, acted in screenplays she has co-written with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - and it is a tour de force. There's nothing exactly new about Time Travel in film but Lvovsky employs it in a definite positive way so that whilst she is unable to change the past and prevent her mothers' untimely and unexpected heart attack she is able to say important things to her mother. A very worthy addition to the ranks of the triple-threat French female.
Review of Camille Rewinds
