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PAST CONFUSION

Today's film was

Plus tard tu comprendras / One Day You'll Understand (2008)

This is a slow moving examination by a son of his mother's dual family identity during WWII. He has two sets of grandparents. One Catholic the other Jewish.

The Jewish grandparents are taken during the occupation. The Catholic grandparents take their flat and posessions. Their daughter, his mother, grows up and still lives in the same apartment.

None of this is very apparent in the beginning as the son tries to work it out but we tumble long before he does. His mother will not answer his questions. She wants to forget.

The movie is good in and of itself. At another level, we have Jeanne Moureau as the mother.

Every great actress and beauty needs a good part in her final years and this is Moureau's. Her beauty has changed. She radiates spiritual strength and great wisdom.

I enjoyed the film and will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.