After watching the charmingly bonkers Now You See Me again recently,I decided to have a look on Amazon for other movies with the very pretty actress Mélanie Laurent. In among the Hollywood titles I spotted a French film with her that had English Subtitles,which led to me getting ready to find out how fine Mélanie Laurent is.
The plot:
Returning to France after being away in Spain for a year, Elise "Lili" Tellier finds out that he musician brother Loïc has run off since having a heated argument with their dad Paul. Depressed over Loïc not contacting her in any way at all, Lili starts to not eat or drink at all,which leads to her getting hospitalised.As Lili hits a low point,Paul reveals that Loïc has sent her a letter.Her spirits lifted,Lili decides to go and track her brother down.
View on the film:
Strapped to a hospital bed,the dazzling Mélanie Laurent superbly expresses the life drained out of Lili and the slow.painful rediscovery of optimism.Placing all the blame on his shoulders, Kad Merad gives an excellent performance as Paul Tellier,by peeling away at Paul's stone shell,to reveal his full,true self.
Shot in a alluringly breezy style by co-writer/(along with Olivier Adam) director Philippe Lioret,the screenplay by Lioret gets under the hood of the sun-kissed middle class life. Surrounding Lili with well-drawn support round the hospital bed, the writers brilliantly peel open all of the missed opportunities and the secret selfless acts committed by Lili's fine family.
The plot:
Returning to France after being away in Spain for a year, Elise "Lili" Tellier finds out that he musician brother Loïc has run off since having a heated argument with their dad Paul. Depressed over Loïc not contacting her in any way at all, Lili starts to not eat or drink at all,which leads to her getting hospitalised.As Lili hits a low point,Paul reveals that Loïc has sent her a letter.Her spirits lifted,Lili decides to go and track her brother down.
View on the film:
Strapped to a hospital bed,the dazzling Mélanie Laurent superbly expresses the life drained out of Lili and the slow.painful rediscovery of optimism.Placing all the blame on his shoulders, Kad Merad gives an excellent performance as Paul Tellier,by peeling away at Paul's stone shell,to reveal his full,true self.
Shot in a alluringly breezy style by co-writer/(along with Olivier Adam) director Philippe Lioret,the screenplay by Lioret gets under the hood of the sun-kissed middle class life. Surrounding Lili with well-drawn support round the hospital bed, the writers brilliantly peel open all of the missed opportunities and the secret selfless acts committed by Lili's fine family.