British Film Festival

A capsule review of today’s screening in the American Film Institute’s BritFest during the UK/LA ’88 Festival ‘NANOU’

Monicas, 3 and 8:45 p . m .

This finely-drawn and fascinating portrait of a tempestuous love-affair between a young English photography student traveling through Lorraine and a stormy French political activist is one of this festival’s gems. Writer-director Conny Templeman knows precisely the geography of such a difficult contemporary idyll, as two people try, for the sake of their attraction, to overcome the innate “foreignness” of their lives. The exquisite Imogen Stubbs has gone on to be a major discovery in England after this; Jean-Philippe Ecoffey is marvelous as Luc, and as her first love you can spot Daniel Day-Lewis in Templeman’s glowing, memorable debut film. RECOMMENDED.