With summer comes the hunger drive, but as we are always ready to tempt fate, we go for the French film of the month! A first film that comes out of nowhere, apparent technical output in July, three weeks before the release of the bulldozer Inglourious Basterds . At first sight there is no relationship between these two productions, except that the Tarantino's film shares with you Up actress Melanie Laurent, an opportunity perhaps to boost the numbers a bit of a short film released without big promotion.
The pitch is to love canned: At 26, Chloe lives alone in Paris. Everything seems to be fine. Good work, nice friends, neighbors conciliatory ... It looks just great Love. And only the movies they rent DVDs regularly bring him a glimmer of hope. One day she unwittingly meets an American, Jack, dumped by his girlfriend, who just won a trip to Paris. Chloe will then, by happy random, retrieve the bag for Jack, especially falling in love with its content ... Punctuated by a catchy song by Kate Nash, the film follows the journey of Melanie Laurent, adorable and playful, which loses its inaccessibility time of a film, to become that neighbor who could reside in the apartment at side. Dreamy, light but incredibly serious when it comes to feelings, she manages to infuse his character (Chloe) I do not know what a particularly original and touching that one can only fall in love.
In this romantic story in Paris who could pitch in disgust from his more a, the potential of artificial scent is quickly removed by the lightness of the company: The film is constructed like a goofy survey that will engage everyone knows that Chloe, to find the owner of the red suitcase and dare talk to him. Between hope she knows just as unreasonable and want to believe it will go a long way to go out of his little bubble and take its first steps outside. Under his features so charming, Chloe is a different character almost reassuring about girls her age can be an adult and still dreaming of Prince Charming, a trap as a blessing.
Until you is a movie title is puzzling, vaguely poetic we do not know why, where one embarks from the crumbling walls of a Paris hotel, an apartment of a young girl a little lost, a film where we go from one continent to another within a plane. A premise and an ease that seems inherent to the genre, and can quickly upset if not for the cool clear of the whole and the belief that emerges. The plot is played on two levels, between Chloe and her daily life that slips slowly, and American Jack on vacation in Paris, where he waits patiently found his suitcase (as such, the U.S. perspective on life hotel in France is pretty hilarious).
Torn between English and French, the film is not confined to his status as romantic comedy, and plays the chronicle of manners from two personalities who are hoping for a little more original than their present situation. A game of musical chairs that is almost cruel to his characters in his last act before reassure us about the future of each. Phew.
Up plunges you into the lives of his characters, even minor, to the point of us to share some nice jokes. The hollow of a sequence, it develops a nice concept: the theory of compatibility with DVD. Three songs, three movies to know if we match. A test that is already not hesitate to get in the evenings without having made that way.
Director Jennifer Devoldere enriches its passage sweet epic pleasing supporting cast, the hotel receptionist odious to the father of Chloe, a little geek, played by the great Jackie Berroyer (to see imperatively: Calvary ). It also crosses the actor Billy Boyd (Pippin in Lord of the Rings ) English dapper great emphasis on playing the best friend of Jack, which makes the film an undeniable bond with his comic interventions always a little "direct".
Detail lolant between good people: Chloe is a real consumer DVD and provides a video club. A video store that customers of Operation Frisson Yannick Dahan may recognize that as these provide a framework for the issue (probably since suspended). Arie Elmaleh, sucks much less than his brother, plays the manager who speaks and reads Mad Movies (almost) good movie genre: are evoked jumble The Grudge , 28 days later and The Descent. References "dark" in a romantic film, it does not take agitates for more on my seat.
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never demonstrative, always waiting and looking at the right time, you Up is the great story of a meeting subject to doubt and confusion to its denouement, too good to be true but yet so clear. Life is not all about lightning strikes, we also learn to know before.
8 / 10 because In the Mood for Love
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