A good movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this movie but since I’m a huge fan of Roman Polanski, I was of course really eager to check this flick. Apparently, Polanski continues with his recent minimalist streak as he has  decided to make something even smaller than ‘Carnage’ which was starring 4 actors. Well, this was basically another adaptation of a play with only 2 actors this time. To be honest, I was first slightly worried. I mean, Vanda, the character played by Emmanuelle Seigner, was just so annoying and, on top of that, I thought that Seigner was barely convincing. Fortunately, as soon as she started auditioning, the whole thing became much more compelling to watch. In fact, he did remind me of ‘Vanya on 42nd Street’, the last movie directed by Louis Malle, in the sense that you had the actors basically doing a play in a theater without any decors or props. The difference, here, is that there were some extra layers as the characters keeping jumping out of character, especially Vanda, to talk about the play, the characters and about themselves in general.  I have to admit that this mix slowly won me over and the end-result was not bad at all. To conclude, even though it was probably not one of the strongest movies delivered by Polanski, I still think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in the Polish master.