An average movie

Once again, it is another really obscure French feature that almost no one here on listal has seen. First of all, even though Robert Guédiguian doesn’t seem to be very well known abroad, he always had a stellar reputation in France but, to be honest, I always had a hard time to connect with his work. This movie is a fine example. Indeed, when it was released in France, it was a huge critical success (it was even nominated for the César for the Best French movie of the year) and since I kept hearing some interesting things about this director, I was quite eager to check it out. Unfortunately, eventually, I must admit that I didn’t care much for the whole thing. I don’t know, it is basically a sober romantic drama with a realistic social background and, on paper, it should have been appealing and, yet, I just didn’t connect with the characters and what they were going through. Basically, only because this couple is from the lower-middle class, they should get some extra quality, some nobility and while it works fine with Ken Loach’s work, it simply just bored me here. To conclude, I think it is actually overrated and I don’t think it is really worth a look.

5/10