Paul is Leaving (Variety)

Aug 18, 2004 12:00 a.m. - Yahoo! News - Entertainment - Movies

Variety - Seventeen acting students sit around trying to discover why their philosophy teacher suddenly upped and left. Tanner drops the whining about loss of values that marked his recent work and instead has his characters proclaim the importance of beauty and life. But the philosophical recitations peppering the script by such predictable scribes as Artaud, Celine and Guyotat act as big sinkholes to any joy or beauty that can be scraped together. These students will only have a career if someone teaches them not to "act!" every phrase and line; they can learn more from watching the untrained naturalness of fellow countryman Pierre Chatagny in "Stupid Boy" than from anything seen here. Low budget and low interest.

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