.... moody as duck
Loosely based on the Youth which came of age in 1981 at the time Mitterrand got to be prez in France after a million years of right-wing rule these are young men full of the sounds of Joy Division "Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders" practically tells you what the mood/mode will be here
The lead actor even has a passing resemblance to Ian Curtis and certainly stole his haircut
He is a Breton country lad who runs a radio station with his brother; never quite sure if that is bone fide or just a wish .... but they have friends who follow them ... ok it is real and named Warsaw after earlier name of Joy Division
The mum is not longer in the frame having passed away the dad runs a garage and the elder brother is a confirmed alcoholic and extremely self-destructive
Young man tries to escape military service and get P4 status (Psychology 4 ie exemption) but fails which sends him to Berlin where many different things happen
The storyline is simple there is a love/infatuation story weaved in too and cleverly so
But the overall is really about 1981 Tapes/Reel-to-Reel about the music out of the UK about "the young men, the weight on their shoulders" and the Zeitgeist attached
Filmed in very subterranean tones/hues throughout
EXCELLENTLY made it got some awards at Cannes in 2021 .... would highly recommend for music-lovers awesome soundtrack throughout and anyone old enough to remember 81 as an adult in France or elsewhere.
