Tuesday, May 05, 2015
Last romance
The passage of time does not necessarily reveal new plot lines.
This conventional romantic drama from André Téchiné proves that durable stories can be told over and over again. Some say that there are only 13 original stories and all the rest are embellishments on these central ideas. I do not know what those 13 are.
Les Temps qui Changent /Changing Times (2004)
starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu shows that at least the one about first romance being the last romance is a durable one.
They disagree on how and when they first had a "relationship" but now that they meet in mid life it is a chance to do it over.
It is a serious and sometimes funny study of middle age and its impact on how to get along. For contrast there is a younger couple, actually couples as Deneuve's son is bisexual. He plays both sides of the street. This contrast between young and old is fun to watch.
It is a nice workmanlike film that kept me going to the end.
A 3 out of Netflix5.
I labeled it as a gay film since it does have a very sweet subplot for the son and his boyfriend with some nice pictures of them together at night.
