Fans of Eric Rohmer,you have got to move on:this world of youth is not a rosy one ,not a world where all that a girl has to do is choose between an apartment in Paris or a small house in the suburb.Philippe Lioret does not show young people going to the beach,or contemplating their navel or waiting for the green ray.
Melanie Laurent shines in her part of a desperate girl whose twin brother has disappeared.She puts the blame on her father (Kad Merad) but this man,as the movie progresses ,becomes more and more pitiful ,and more and more endearing.He's got a strong guilt feeling and the only time he rebels against a -perhaps unfair- accusation comes relatively late in the movie when he says he gave him all that money could buy.Isabelle Renauld is equally efficient as the mother and good support is provided by Aïssa Maiga and Julien Boisselier.
In Lioret's excellent work,the character who moves me deeply is the father ;the conclusion of the movie leaves us with a man who finally gave all,who wrote his self-criticism,a good father who tried his best and who deserves all our sympathy.
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Melanie Laurent shines in her part of a desperate girl whose twin brother has disappeared.She puts the blame on her father (Kad Merad) but this man,as the movie progresses ,becomes more and more pitiful ,and more and more endearing.He's got a strong guilt feeling and the only time he rebels against a -perhaps unfair- accusation comes relatively late in the movie when he says he gave him all that money could buy.Isabelle Renauld is equally efficient as the mother and good support is provided by Aïssa Maiga and Julien Boisselier.
In Lioret's excellent work,the character who moves me deeply is the father ;the conclusion of the movie leaves us with a man who finally gave all,who wrote his self-criticism,a good father who tried his best and who deserves all our sympathy.
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"La Stanza Del Figlio" Nanni Moretti
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