An average movie

It is one of the most obscure movies I have seen and I don't expect you have heard about it. I don’t expect you to know Nicole Garcia either. She has a decent reputation as an actress in France but I’m sure she is pretty much unknown abroad. Honestly, I'm not very familiar with her acting career but I have seen most of the movies she has directed and I really like her style. It’s too bad that not more women direct movies since female directors have usually really different sensitivity than their male counterpart and make some striking features. Anyway, this movie was her directing debut, even though it was far from being her best movie, I thought it was a solid drama. Indeed, at the center, you have Nathalie Baye playing the lead character, and she was really good and basically carried the whole thing. Eventually, she would be nominated for the César of the Best actress (the Césars are the French Oscars, if you didn’t know). Like I said before, even though it is an interesting debut, it is not completely successful though. I mean, the plot was rather murky, if there was any plot at all, and the main character, even though she was interesting, was rather annoying and I had a hard time caring about her and what she was going through. Still, even though it is nothing amazing, it remains an interesting drama and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like French movies.

6/10