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- 2003
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 30 m
- 2003
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 30 m
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.
Directed By: Julie Lopes-Curval
Written By: François Favrat, Julie Lopes-Curval
- 2003
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 30 m
- 2003
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 30 m
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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.
Directed By: Julie Lopes-Curval
Written By: François Favrat, Julie Lopes-Curval
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
66
67% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
33% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Compare 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.
The whole endeavor pleases with its wealth of tiny observations that add up to an affecting whole.
This 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.
The story unfolds as slowly as does life in Cayeux. There's minimal dialogue and even less action.
The 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.
While she (Lopes-Curval) portrays the brittleness of their lives with lovely splashes of generosity, the lack of condescension doesn't change the fact that there's not much drama to be found in those very limitations; her characters don't do much beyond getting on one another's nerves.
This plot, with its murderous, sexy love and murder entanglements, can work. This cast might make it come off, when more of them have movie and not mostly stage experience.
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Production Company
Canal+,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep),
Sofica Sofinergie 5,
Sombrero Films,
Sombrero Productions
Release Date Aug 6, 2003
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
