La Vie nouvelle

A New Life (French: La Vie nouvelle) is a 2002 French film directed by Philippe Grandrieux and starring Zachary Knighton and Anna Mouglalis.

La Vie Nouvelle
Directed by	Philippe Grandrieux
Cinematography	Stéphane Fontaine
Release date	2002 (2002)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	France

Plot

The story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a dilapidated Eastern European landscape.

Sources

Writing in English

• Beugnet, Martine. (2005) ‘Evil and the senses: Philippe Grandrieux’s Sombre and La Vie nouvelle’, Studies in French Cinema, 5(3), pp. 175–184. https://doi.org/10.1386/sfci.5.3.175/1.
• Beugnet, Martine. (2007) Cinema and sensation: French film and the art of transgression. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Chamarette, Jenny. (2013) Phenomenology and the future of film: rethinking subjectivity beyond French cinema. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [See chapter 5: Threatened Corporealities: Thinking with the Films of Philippe Grandrieux]
• Goddard, Michael. (2011) ‘Eastern Extreme: The Presentation of Eastern Europe as a Site of Monstrosity in La Vie nouvelle and Import/Export’, in Tanya Horeck and Tina Kendall (eds) The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 82–92.
• Hainge, Greg. (2007) ‘Le corps concret: Of bodily and filmic material excess in Philippe Grandrieux’s cinema’, Australian Journal of French Studies, 44(2), pp. 153–171. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.44.2.153.
• Hainge, Greg. (2008) ‘L’Invention du Troisième Peuple: The Utopian vision of Philippe Grandrieux’s dystopias’, in J. West-Sooby (ed.) Nowhere is perfect: French and Francophone utopias/dystopias. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, pp. 228–239.
• Hainge, Greg. (2017) Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema. New York ; London: Bloomsbury Academic (Ex:centrics).
• Ladegaard, Jakob. (2014) ‘Spatial Affects: Body and Space in Philippe Grandrieux’s La Vie nouvelle’, in L. Sætre, P. Lombardo, and J. Zanetta (eds) Exploring text and emotions. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, pp. 151–176.
• Martin, Adrian. (2004) ‘Dance Girl Dance: Philippe Grandrieux’s La Vie nouvelle (The New Life, 2002)’, Kinoeye, 4(3). http://www.kinoeye.org/04/03/martin03.php
• Watkins, Raymond. (2016) ‘Robert Bresson’s Heirs: Bruno Dumont, Philippe Grandrieux, and French Cinema of Sensation’, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 33(8), pp. 761–776. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2016.1191895.

Writing in French

• Brenez, Nicole. (ed.) (2005) La vie nouvelle, nouvelle vision: à propos d’un film de Philippe Grandrieux. Paris: Scheer.

Writing in German

• Morsch, Thomas. (2011) Medienästhetik des Films: verkörperte Wahrnehmung und ästhetische Erfahrung im Kino. Munich: Wilhelm Fink.
• Oxen, Nicolas. (2019) ‘Das sensorische Bild: Instabile Wahrnehmungsrelationen im Kino von Philippe Grandrieux’, in C. Voss, K. Krtilova, and L. Engell (eds) Medienanthropologische Szenen. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Fink, pp. 183–203. Available at: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783770561971_013.
• Stiglegger, Marcus. (2012) ‘Haptische Bilder: Das performative Körperkino von Philippe Grandrieux’, in I. Ritzer and M. Stiglegger (eds) Global Bodies: Mediale Repräsentationen des Körpers. Berlin: Bertz + Fischer, pp. 42–54.

External links

• A New Life at IMDb