Once again thank to the Biennale for making this accessible already now, just after the world premiere.
This is a film with three intertwined stories and, as usual in this kind of film, their ways and fates start crossing each other.
There are Tomasz and Joséphine. We see that things start to go wrong for them already in theur marriage night. One year later their marriage is completely abusive. Josephine has been forced to cut all relations with her parents, but she refuses help. She has become a mental slave of her husband.
There is Melanie and her father. Melanie is going to marry Jan, a professor who is 18 years older than her father. He is so furious that he doesn't report his own marital problems. We are not focussing very much on this story.
Melanie's husband is the professor of Anthony. He has problems to get acquainted with girls. His mother has been transferred to a psychiatric ward, because she torched her husband's car. She has a refusing attitude towards her son, but at last they find a consensus.
This is a film about the absence of parents. Tomas, the worker has no parents at all. He never mentions them. He forces his wife to cut all connections to her parents. It is a somewhat embarrassing to note that middle and upper class does not have similar problems. They seem to be able to communicate and to relate better to each other. I find this disbalance rather disturbing.
So misery all the way through (maybe with the exception of Melanie and her silver daddy). But this is not exactly social realism, but rather middle-class misery. It is not bleak, but filmed under the bright sun of southern France. Only indoor scenes have a tendency to be rather sombre.
Unfortunately the film becomes a bit sentimental at the end, but on the whole this film is quite enjoyable.
8/10
This is a film with three intertwined stories and, as usual in this kind of film, their ways and fates start crossing each other.
There are Tomasz and Joséphine. We see that things start to go wrong for them already in theur marriage night. One year later their marriage is completely abusive. Josephine has been forced to cut all relations with her parents, but she refuses help. She has become a mental slave of her husband.
There is Melanie and her father. Melanie is going to marry Jan, a professor who is 18 years older than her father. He is so furious that he doesn't report his own marital problems. We are not focussing very much on this story.
Melanie's husband is the professor of Anthony. He has problems to get acquainted with girls. His mother has been transferred to a psychiatric ward, because she torched her husband's car. She has a refusing attitude towards her son, but at last they find a consensus.
This is a film about the absence of parents. Tomas, the worker has no parents at all. He never mentions them. He forces his wife to cut all connections to her parents. It is a somewhat embarrassing to note that middle and upper class does not have similar problems. They seem to be able to communicate and to relate better to each other. I find this disbalance rather disturbing.
So misery all the way through (maybe with the exception of Melanie and her silver daddy). But this is not exactly social realism, but rather middle-class misery. It is not bleak, but filmed under the bright sun of southern France. Only indoor scenes have a tendency to be rather sombre.
Unfortunately the film becomes a bit sentimental at the end, but on the whole this film is quite enjoyable.
8/10
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