FILM SCREENING: Clean (2004) April 5, 2007

A deposed rock star must give up drugs and her past way of life to get her son back. Assayas directs a melodrama imprinted with nostalgia. As a precise and attentive archaeologist, he records one of the last vestiges of a bygone era: the independent rock scene of the Eighties. Indeed, his characters belong to the mythology of rock whose mantra was "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll". Today, the flamboyance and rage have disappeared. Relieved of these antics and having returned to a mundane life, his heroine must face and assume her responsibilities.