"Le bon dieu sans confession" : death wish ? (8/8)
In its final moments, « Le bon dieu sans confession » unexpectedly meets « Rendez-vous de juillet », as the older generation is led off-screen and forced to make room for the newer one, on which all hopes now rely not to repeat their parents’ mistakes.
In « Rendez-vous de juillet », after the unspeakable trauma of France WW2 collapse, the older generation seemed silently to agree they had lost any moral right to advise their progeny about their life.
In « Le bon dieu sans confession », the lies, the compromises, all the wasted feelings of the adult characters make them similarly unsuitable role models.
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