You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!

2013

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!

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Based on two works by the playwright Jean Anouilh, YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET opens with a who's-who of French acting royalty being summoned to the reading of a late playwright's last will and testament. There, the playwright (Denis Podalydès) appears on a TV screen from beyond the grave and asks his erstwhile collaborators to evaluate a recording of an experimental theater company performing his Eurydice-a play they themselves all appeared in over the years. But as the video unspools, instead of watching passively, these seasoned thespians begin acting out the text alongside their youthful avatars, looking back into the past rather like mythic Orpheus himself. (c) Kino

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Cast

Sabine Azéma
as Eurydice 1
Pierre Arditi
as Orphée 1
Anne Consigny
as Eurydice 2
Lambert Wilson
as Orphée 2
Mathieu Amalric
as Monsieur Henri
Jean-Noël Brouté
as Mathias
Anny Duperey
as La mère
Hippolyte Girardot
as Dulac
Gérard Lartigau
as Le petit régisseur
Michel Piccoli
as Le père
Michel Robin
as Le garçon de café
Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc
as Secrétaire commissaire
Denis Podalydès
as Antoine
Andrzej Seweryn
as Marcellin
Michel Vuillermoz
as Vincent
Sylvain Dieuaide
as Orphée
Fulvia Collongues
as The Mother
Vimala Pons
as Eurydice
Vincent Chatraix
as The Father
Jean-Christophe Folly
as Monsieur Henri
Vladimir Consigny
as Mathias
Laurent Menoret
as Vincent
Lyn Thibault
as The Young Girl
Gabriel Dufay
as The Hotel Waiter
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Critic Reviews for You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!

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  • What affects us most is Resnais's ingenious idea. And that affect is magnified by a surprise ending.

    Jul 12, 2013 | Full Review…

    Stanley Kauffmann

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

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

    Gary Goldstein

    Los Angeles Times
    Top Critic

  • 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.

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

    John Anderson

    Newsday
    Top Critic

  • 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.

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

    Farran Smith Nehme

    New York Post
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  • "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.

    Jun 6, 2013 | Rating: 5/5

    A.O. Scott

    New York Times
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  • Complex yet lighthearted, as diverting as it is meditative.

    Jun 6, 2013 | Full Review…

    Mark Jenkins

    NPR
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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
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