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Liberté
France / Spain / Portugal 2019
produced by Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Joaquim Sapinho, Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Marta Vieira Alves (executive), Claire Lion (executive), Elisabeth Pawlowski (executive), Montse Triola (executive) for Idéale Audience, Rosa Filmes, Andergraun Films, Lupa Film
directed by Albert Serra
starring Helmut Berger, Marc Susini, Iliana Zabeth, Laura Poulvet, Baptiste Pinteaux, Theodora Marcadé, Alexander García Düttmann, Lluís Serrat, Xavier Pérez, Francesc Daranas, Catalin Jugravu, Montse Triola, Safira Robens
written by Albert Serra
review by Mike Haberfelner
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With the French Revolution still a few years away, disgraced
aristocrats from both the French and the German courts meet in a secluded
forest to plot a revolution of their own, one that will shatter the
prudish facades of both courts and lead to social upheaval in the process
- well, that's the theory at least, what it amounts to is that over the
course the night, the aristocrats abandon all their moral restrictions,
and in the consequence also all social restrictions ... to have a big
orgy, one that doesn't only involve the expected shagging but also piss
and feces, and soon also includes the aristocrats' underlings, with the
order of master and servant soon being reversed or even obliterated, and
likewise gender roles. But when the sun rises the next morning, the orgy
has run its course, and the revolution didn't happen ... Liberté's
premise is an original one for sure, and that director Albert Serra
approached it in a very restrained, maybe even laconic way to prevent the
film from becoming nothing more than high gloss erotica or even porn is
most certainly a plus for the film - but that said, the whole film becomes
too repetitive before long, seems to just make the same point over and
over again with yet more sexual acts while not really pushing its
narrative forward - or anywhere, really. Now sure, that's pretty much the
director's general approach to film, but sometimes it works better,
wittier, and sometimes not so well - and unfortunately, Liberté
falls into the latter category.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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