Toutes Les Nuits
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Eugène Green's first feature film is loosely inspired by Gustave Flaubert's First Sentimental Education. Toutes les nuits was written in 1994, shot in 1999 and distributed in 2001, making it a unique case of critical reception that recognised the great originality of Green's film debut (receiving the prestigious Louis Delluc Award for best first work). Set in 1967, the film focuses on the paths of two childhood friends (Henri and Jules) who spend their last summer vacation together. By the end of adolescence, their lives are about to diverge, Henri will leave for Paris to pursue his academic training, Jules will remain on the countryside. Their sentimental relationships, their first love affairs, and the platonic passion one of them has for a woman he has never seen, develop against the backdrop of intense epistolary exchange. With the outbreak of May 68, the geographical separation of these two friends, which we can also see as split of the same personality, will also be an emotional, experiential and political separation.
