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Michel Piccoli in "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet."

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Movie Info

A who's-who of French actors are summoned to hear the reading of a playwright's last will and testament. They are asked to view a recording of a play in which all have starred over the years, and as video rolls, they all act out their old roles.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

French (France)
Director:

Alain Resnais
Producer:

Christophe Jeauffroy, Jean-Louis Livi, Julie Salvador
Writer:

Alain Resnais, Laurent Herbiet
Release Date (Theaters):

Jun 7, 2013 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Oct 28, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA):

$18.5K
Runtime:

1h 55m
Production Co:

F Comme Film, Alamode Film, Christmas In July

Cast & Crew

Mathieu Amalric
M. Henri

Michel Piccoli
Le père

Hippolyte Girardot
Dulac

Denis Podalydès
Antoine

Andrzej Seweryn
Marcellin

Michel Vuillermoz
Vincent

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Critic Reviews for You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

All Critics (35) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (5)

Resnais breaches multiple conventional boundaries- between ancient and modern, theater and film, and even life and death-and embraces digital postproduction to create a marvelously fluid cinematic space that extends his lifelong surrealist project.

August 27, 2019 | Full Review…

Amy Taubin
Film Comment Magazine
What affects us most is Resnais's ingenious idea. And that affect is magnified by a surprise ending.

July 12, 2013 | Full Review…

Stanley Kauffmann
The New Republic
Resnais' occasional use of split-screen and other traditional special effects enhances the picture's various dualities, dreamy quality and decided staginess.

July 5, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
Despite some hyperbolic excess, the process of Resnais' production is unexpected and free, and revisits the very nature of cinema, and theater, with a wondrous eye.

June 13, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

John Anderson
Newsday
There is something both mischievous and moving about a world-famous director who, closing on his 10th decade, designs a movie that celebrates his actors: their varying ages, their versatility, their heart.

June 7, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Farran Smith Nehme
New York Post
"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" is a sly, elegant meditation on the relationship between reality and artifice. But it is a thought-experiment driven above all by emotion.

June 6, 2013 | Rating: 5/5

A.O. Scott
New York Times
Resnais displays an immaculate instinct for when to use which actors, ... and [how to use sound] to elicit the emotions that on stage would emerge from variations in volume.

June 30, 2020 | Full Review…

CJ Sheu
Critics at Large
Among other things, the movie serves as a kind of rehearsal for an elegy, enacted in various permutations not because of memory's regenerative warp and woof after the fact, but because of imagination's possibilities before anything has ever happened.

October 26, 2018 | Full Review…

David Phelps
MUBI
... there was a wholly unwarranted air of the posthumous about You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, which is as eccentric and alive as its immediate predecessor.

November 18, 2017 | Full Review…

Blake Williams
Cinema Scope
This is the film I will remember as Resnais' final word on love, life, and art.

January 13, 2017 | Full Review…

Sean Axmaker
Seanax.com
Beautiful, difficult, frustrating, and engrossing, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet is an undeniable accomplishment of form and experimentation.

June 2, 2014 | Rating: A- | Full Review…

Landon Palmer
Film School Rejects
Undeniably clever.

February 2, 2014 | Rating: B | Full Review…

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Audience Reviews for You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

Aug 06, 2015

In "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," famed playwright Antoine d'Anthac(Denis Podalydes) has died. His last request is for some of his favorite actors and other creative collaborators to meet at his house. What he would like them to do is judge a new version of his play "Eurydice" performed by a warehouse theatre group who apparently spent most of their budget on a cool looking pendulum. Even with one seriously wonky framing sequence, director Alain Resnais, with his penultimate film "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," turns two of his favorite obsessions, theatre and surrealism, into a mindblowing experience. Throughout the body of the movie, with a little help from split screen, he seamlessly combines three productions of a play(starring Sabine Azema & Pierre Arditi, Anne Consigny & Lambert Wilson and Vimala Pons & Sylvain Dieuaide respectively) that occasionally inhabit the same space.(Thus proving we have to find out to how to clone Mathieu Amalric.) This is no mere experiment as it allows the viewer to not only see the differences in various adaptations but more specifically in how the actors interpret the work.

Walter M Super Reviewer
Dec 10, 2013

I'd be tempted to think the film was all just some pretentious exercise if it wasn't so moving. Resnais (who's 91 by the way) has put together something totally remarkable here, as he combines so many different styles and still manages to make the film thematically consistent.

Alec B Super Reviewer
Oct 23, 2012

Interesting. For a while. The first hour of the film is quite fascinating and the acting is strong. But then it switches to autopilot and the originality of the approach of the beginning wears out. The ending is a bit rushed too.

Hugo S Super Reviewer
Sep 30, 2012

The theatricalization of Cinema as intended by Resnais may be absorbing at first as it explores a touching sense of nostalgia from the characters/actors, but this scene play is not compelling enough to deserve two hours, becoming artificial and vapid after a while.

Carlos M Super Reviewer