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Highly Strung

Highly Strung

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Je te mangerais
Cert:(adv 15)
Dir. Sophie Laloy
France, 97 mins, 2009
Cast: Judith Davis, Isild Le Besco, Edith Scob, Marc Chapiteau



The Short film
Choking Game will screen before this film.

Teenaged Marie moves from the countryside to Lyon to make the most of her talent at the piano. Once there, she looks up old school friend Emma, now a worldly urban sophisticate and acting beyond her young years. Marie takes a room in Emma’s high-ceilinged town apartment and delights in her new surroundings, quickly dropping her provincial ways. But when an ill-advised romance between the two roommates curdles, Emma reveals a controlling jealous streak… This pleasingly button-pushing mix of trammelled passion and high style will resonate with those who admire French drama. Highly Strung recalls Denis Dercourt’s The Page Turner, and present and correct here too are the central power of music, the intensity of female competition, and the sacrifice required by elite training. There are great faces here too, from Davis and Le Besco’s heightened take on naïve fervour, to the great Edith (Eyes Without a Face) Scob’s scene-stealing turn as Marie’s silver-bobbed teacher, and this is all of a piece, tuned to perfection.

Print source: Peccadillo Pictures

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