La Vie Nouvelle (Original French ONLY Version)

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La Vie Nouvelle (Original French ONLY Version) Review

It's easy enough to describe Philippe Grandrieux's La vie nouvelle in terms of it being strange, nightmarish, experimental, disturbing and unsettling, and it's probably better to consider the film in those terms, because understanding what goes on over the course of its 100 minutes on a narrative level is difficult and probably not as important as the experience itself.

There is however a girl at the centre of the story, M lania (Anna Mouglalis), seemingly an immigrant, perhaps caught up in a human trafficking enterprise, who has been groomed (if you can call having your hair hacked off with a knife grooming) by Boyan (Zsolt Nagy), and put into prostitution. Then there's two men, Americans - Seymour (Zack Knighton) and Roscoe (Marc Barb�), who come to this East European country to purchase some women. Seymour is powerfully attracted to M�lanie and wants to possess her (it's a more powerful urge than desire, buying or owning the woman), but to do so, he must betray Roscoe. There's another man, a client who M�lanie visits after Seymour, but you really don't want to know about him...

Following Grandrieux's 1998 debut Sombre, the David Lynch influences are even more apparent in his second film - it's typical of Lynch's woman in trouble theme - only even darker, the dialogue even more sparse, the storyline even more abstract. If you can imagine a film taking place largely in the Red Room of the Black Lodge of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, with some scenes in the Pink Room of the same film set to pounding dance rhythms, with an amplified echoing tunnel ambience sound from Eraserhead, add in a bit of Gaspar No�'s Irreversible and you've some approximation of the territory in which La vie nouvelle operates.

Anything else you want to make of the storyline, the relationships between the characters and any symbolism or underlying meaning that the film provokes is up to yourself - it seems to me to an abstract exploration of desire, much in the vein of Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day - but there's certainly plenty going on here visually and sonically for the film to be simply an experience in itself.

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