Nenette and Boni starring Gregoire Colin, Alice Houri

Director: Claire Denis

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Warm, tender, and poetically vague, Claire Denis's French feature Nenette and Boni taps into a rarely dramatized emotion: affection between brother and sister. The gangly, sweetly distant Grégoire Colin (Before the Rain) is Boni, a lonely young man in Marseilles, where he makes pizzas for a living and has highly sexual, dough-related dreams about the beautiful owner (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) of the corner bakery. When his fragile younger sister, Nenette (Alice Houri), arrives, Boni is shaken out of his fantasies by the need to care for another human being; Nenette, too, has a bun in the oven--a baby she's expecting any minute.

With her gift for describing the emotional undercurrents and unpredictable crossings of urban life (demonstrated by her feature I Can't Sleep), Denis creates a vivid, three-dimensional portrait of a small village within a big city, and the film's mood of quiet concern is nicely accentuated by a memorable score from the band Tindersticks.

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