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Friday, Jan 18, 2002
7:30pm
Claire's Knee
New Print!
(Le Genou de Claire). A tale spun out of moral questions, summer sports, and recreational introspection: Aurora, a writer friend of a groom-to-be (Jean-Claude Brialy), suggests that he allow himself to become involved with Laura, a teenager who has a crush on him, and let Aurora chart their movements into a novel. Whatever higher plan there was to this game is thrown out of orbit when his interest gravitates to the epiphanous knee of Laura's stepsister Claire. The plot turns on the collapsed caprices of the self-examining characters, but when their illusions crash, there isn't a hint of tragic weight; a renewed self-awareness floats them to the ground.
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