This is a film that - according to the trailers - promises a charming story about the life in a small town in France during and after the Second World War.
We are made to believe that the story is filled with both daily events of ordinary nature, thrilling incidents, love and humour, all wrapped up within a nice photographic frame.
Unfortunately we were very disappointed.
We are made to believe that the story is filled with both daily events of ordinary nature, thrilling incidents, love and humour, all wrapped up within a nice photographic frame.
Unfortunately we were very disappointed.
It seemed as if the director had left the work of directing to the camera men and left the actors to manage as good as they could. Of course there are camera men who most certainly are able to direct but in this case not even the camerawork was made in a appealing way. It was more as if they had placed the camera in one spot and then followed the character coming in from left and disappering to the right, that is to say theatre.
If the ambition was to make this film as 'natural' and free of 'acting' as possible, making it more 'realistic' and almost documentary, one definitely failed.
Not only was the acting extremely poor but we asked ourselves time after time where this film wanted to take us?
It's not at all a problem if the tempo is slow and there are long shots not containing much of visible content, if the picture is filled with other components of visual hight or poetry but in this case it was neither.
To express my(our)self-(selves) mildly: The least good film we've seen in a long time!
I can't remember having seen anything of this director - Manuel Poirier - before (but I'm not sure) but Aurore has seen his film 'Western' and thought it at least better than this one - and that is easy for sure!
If the ambition was to make this film as 'natural' and free of 'acting' as possible, making it more 'realistic' and almost documentary, one definitely failed.
Not only was the acting extremely poor but we asked ourselves time after time where this film wanted to take us?
It's not at all a problem if the tempo is slow and there are long shots not containing much of visible content, if the picture is filled with other components of visual hight or poetry but in this case it was neither.
To express my(our)self-(selves) mildly: The least good film we've seen in a long time!
I can't remember having seen anything of this director - Manuel Poirier - before (but I'm not sure) but Aurore has seen his film 'Western' and thought it at least better than this one - and that is easy for sure!
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