Simply A Masterpiece

From my favorite movies..

Did you people see the same film I saw?

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

My husband and I did enjoy this movie. The pacing was lively and interesting. The characters were all appealing and the actress playing Charlotte is really beautiful. She reminded me of Gene Tierney. But most of the story is just sex and sex in all combinations. The jams they got into were entertaining, but we did not watch the ending. For me the very best thing about this movie was the song, Charlotte sang. I loved it, loved her voice, loved the quietness of it. Would very much like to hear more music like that.

Charlotte is in a relationship with Micha who is a veterinary with sultry 'come hither' looks and a line in Gallic charm so bewildering that he could melt the coldest heart. Charlotte is a chanteuse after losing her job and has a best friend in struggling criminal lawyer Melodie.The problem is the couple's relationship is going through one of those blue periods and Charlotte has more than a friendship going on with Melodie – this is all behind Micha's back. He also has a thing for Melodie and it is an itch he is desperate to have a good scratch at. She though likes both of them and is desperate to keep them both in her life; but can she?Now this is a film that has withering charm from the start and more on screen chemistry than a smorgasbord of periodic tables. The story is basically between the three of them and everyone else are all just bit players on their stage. It descends to farce on more than one occasion and can be very funny but this adds to the charm and the human frailty of the situation and the characters.It is one I just loved from the start – it is obviously in French and the sub titles do leave a bit to be desired but are OK for the most part. That said it is still a brilliantly made, small but perfectly formed piece of French cinema.

Jerome Bonnell has given us yet another of his quirky yet charming and hard-to-classify 'little' movies. He came to my attention initially with La Chignon d'Olga which I loved in the cinema and bought on DVD as soon as it became available. Waiting For Someone fell a tad short but now he is back on form with putting a spin on the time-honoured menage a trois cliché by giving us what appears to be on the surface a boy- girl affair with the girl's best friend seemingly playing gooseberry until we learn that the girls are bi-sexual and long-time lovers and, to add a touch of piquancy, both also love the boy and he is not about to be the first guy in history to turn his nose up at sex with two lovely ladies. It's all light as air and would have trouble making the weight as a soufflé'.

An unusual scheme, this story of two long time girl friends - more than gay girl friends - in love one to each other, who are also in love with a young man. A love triangle in a sort of reverse way; not the wife, the husband and the lover, but the straight contrary. I loved that. But the only drawback, the weak point of all this is that story, that film is too short for such a tale. The characters are not fully developed, not explained enough. But the purpose is daring and rewarding for the audiences. Anaïs Demoustier and her funny bunny face is cute, soooo cute.... Jérôme Bonnel has already given us LE TEMPS DE L'AVENTURE two years ago, that I commented. Another powerful romance drama.