Saturday, July 24, 2010
STORIES
Today's film was
with Juliette Binoche and Romain Duris as brother and sister in a critical time in the brother's life as he faces a serious heart problem.
This is an "anthology" picture along the lines of such films as Grand Hotel, in which many stories center on a theme, in this case, Paris, and the reflection of the convalescent Duris. He sees people from his balcony coming and going and imagines that they have interesting lives. We get to see those lives.
The whole enterprise is very pleasing and enjoyable. This is not a great movie but a very good one. A movie movie.
There is not one part of it that I did not identify with in some way even though we see relatively small slices of character's lives. The parts that we do see are vivid and clear in very short bursts of action and talk.
I love both of these principal actors. To see them together was a very special treat.
I will give this a 4 out of Netflix5.
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