A good movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was starring Catherine Deneuve, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I thought it was not bad at all, even if it never really became much more than that. In my opinion, the main issue was that, even though most of it was fairly interesting, there were just too many ideas and sub-plots involved and most of them were as a result really half-baked. Let’s take Claire, the main character, for example. She was a midwife, the clinic she was working for was closing, her son was dropping out of medical school and was having a baby, his father was unknown and she just met a new guy. And I shouldn’t forget that we never get to know who was her mother and that her father also killed himself. Then, you had Béatrice whose incredible life could be developed in a whole mini-series. Seriously, by dropping off half of all these ideas, the whole thing would have been more much efficient and interesting to watch. In fact, when you think about it, the story was actually pretty basic and even seriously predictable and the makers probably tried to cover this up with all this stuff. Still, the two Catherine’s (Frot and Deneuve) were at the top of their game and they both delivered some really solid performances. Indeed, it was a hard sale to make us believe that, after all what happened between them, after all these years, that Claire would still welcome Béatrice in her life but both women really made it work though. Indeed, you can sense that back then and again in the present day, they both felt a connection, a connection Claire never felt with her mother or probably even with anyone else in her life. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still a solid drama and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre. 

7/10