- Studio: First Run Features
- Release Date: Aug 6, 2003
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- Starring: Bulle Ogier, Hélène Fillières, Jonathan Zaccaï
- Summary: A microcosm of French society, including Bulle Ogier as a woman with a gambling problem, stuck in a once fashionable coastal resort town in Northern France.
- Director: Julie Lopes-Curval
- Genre(s): Drama
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90Compare it to what passes for sophisticated filmmaking in this country and the movie becomes a living instrument of cinematic humanism: lovingly intent on observing, not judging; concerned with sympathy, not control; accepting the inevitable ambiguities, not denying them.
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80The whole endeavor pleases with its wealth of tiny observations that add up to an affecting whole.
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70This seemingly placid community is slowly revealed to be tangle of interpersonal relationships defined by that essential rift that divides those who summer at the beach and those who remain behind at season's end.
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60The writer-director's overthinking on the matter is part of what's wrong with her debut film, which is sensitively shot, deeply felt, and dry as dirt.
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