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'Boxes' is a 2007 French film and the directorial debut of Jane Birkin. Birkin also stars alongside Geraldine Chaplin and Michel Piccoli. The film is based on Birkin's own family life, chronicling three marriages and the three children she bore from these marriages. The title alludes to the way in which she compartmentalises these relationships and stages of her life.[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/oct/28/worldmusic.paris A charmed life] The Guardian. 28 October 2007 The film was nominated for the Grand Prix at the Bratislava International Film Festival. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard portion of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May.[http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/theDailyArticle/55533.html Out of Competition - Special Screening: "Boxes" by Jane Birkin] Festival de Cannes. Retrieved on 29 July 2011 It was released in France on 6 June 2007.

Plot



In Brittany, a middle-aged woman, Anna lives in a rambling home with her sometime dead father (Piccoli), her opinionated mother (Chaplin) and the memories of her three grown-up daughters. As Anna struggles with her mid-life crisis, the possessions and photographs in the home begin to spark her memories of childhood and earlier adulthood.

In particular the memories evoked are of her three husbands and the children she bore with them. Her first marriage to Fanny's English father (Hurt) failed and as a consequence, Fanny (Rgnier) barely knows him. Fanny's half-sister is Camille (Doillon), who Anna had with Camille's now dead father, Max (Benichou). There is also her third husband, Jean (Karyo), with whom she had Lilly (Exarchopoulos), but he left to pursue affairs.[https://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=cannes2007&jump=review&reviewid=VE1117933709 Boxes] Variety. May 21, 2007

Cast



*Geraldine Chaplin as Mother

*Michel Piccoli as Father

*Jane Birkin as Anna

*Natacha Rgnier as Fanny

*Lou Doillon as Camille

*John Hurt as Fanny's father

*Maurice Bnichou as Max

*Tchky Karyo as Jean

*Adle Exarchopoulos as Lilli

*Annie Girardot as Josphine

Production



Birkin wrote the script for 'Boxes' in 1995, shortly after her father's death.Tranchant, Marie-Noelle. 'Jane Birkin se dvoile film ouvert'. 6 June 2007 The film was shot in Birkin's own family home in Landda.'Cinma: Jane Birkin ralisatrice, fin de tournage'. SDA. 28 June 2006 Birkin offered the main role of Anna to Chaplin, but Chaplin turned this down, feeling that as the role was written for a 45-year-old woman, she would be better suited to the role of Anna's mother.

Reception



'Le Figaro' praised the "worrying, unpredictable and touching sincerity" of the film.' Boxes Un autoportrait parpill'. Le Figaro. 6 June 2007 Michle Levieux of 'L'Humanit' said that the film was so well written, it deserved to be adapted for the stage.Levieux, Michle. 'Qu'est-ce qui fait courir Jane ?'. L'Humanit. 28 December 2007

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