La Petite Lili

If there's something naggingly familiar about Claude Miller's ensemble piece about a group of movie types hanging about a seaside country home, it's that the film is, in fact, an adaptation of Anton Chekov's The Seagull. This provenance also explains why there's something slightly old-fashioned about the whole business. The central figure in Miller's retelling of the tale is pretty ingenue Lili (Ludivine Sagnier), who's lived her entire life near the summer home of elderly, cantankerous Simon Marceaux (Jean-Pierre Marielle) and his narcissistic younger sister, aging film actress Mado (Miller favorite Nicole Garcia), the mother of Lili's lover, Julien (Robinson...