Film of the Week: "the Colors of Time" - Our Roots, Our Being

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The French tragicomedy "The Colors of Time" is a journey through time with a conservative message. Its plot changes in a more sophisticated way between the Belle Époque and the present. Without raised index fingers, it criticizes blind belief in progress.

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A dilapidated house in Normandy is supposed to give way to a shopping centre with a parking lot. Around thirty heirs have to decide what happens to the old estate. Four distant cousins arrive – and meet forgotten photographs, sketches and a mysterious painting between dust and spider webs, which catapults them directly into Paris from 1895. With this discovery, Cédric Klapisch begins his time travel history with the title «The Colours of Time». …

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Cédric Klapisch in "The Colours of Time" brings two epochs and their own belief in progress into a dialogue What value can a house that no one has entered for 80 years? The heir community that is to decide the future of the property in Cédric Klapisch's The Colours of Time counts over thirty members. The descendants of the former owner, a certain Adèle Meunier, have divided into many branches, one of which reaches to the Maghreb. This multiplici…

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Playful change of time: "The colours of the time are about a woman in Paris around 1900 and her heirs 125 years later.