miguelreina

[IFFR] Adaptation of the play by Marguerite Duras that does not avoid the shortage of settings and characters. There is a mystery in the main character that Charlotte Gainsbourg conveys effectively, but the director fails to extract from the text meanings that go beyond the words of this lover-wife who doubts whether or not to escape with her young lover. A certain timelessness is introduced into the film that undermines the meaning of a text that speaks of women in a period of transformation.

Saint Pauly

Like overhearing two people on a park bench nonchalantly talking about their extramarital affairs and you'#39;re even more bored than they are. This film collects the absolute worst of all French film clichés, from the ridiculously pretentious dialog, to the absence of a beginning / middle / end and including cigarette smoking, black and white film that turns to color, and cheating on your spouse... This is a movie about people who don'#39;t say '#34;Get the fuck out'#34; enough, and it shows.