Topic: | Mother and Son | |
Posted by: | Joe Conneely | |
Date/Time: | 04/07/23 18:15:00 |
Potentially a topical film given current ongoing events in France. This French film from 2022 does not labour the immigration issue (though it does touch on it towards its end) in its story of an Ivory Coast separated mother bringing her two small children to live in France. Unlike the frenetic and time span packed pace of the recent French film "Full Time", this follows an interesting structure. It covers around 20 years from 1989, in 3 parts with the initial emphasis on the mother who is a true free spirit in how she wants to live her emotional life (with shades of the subtext of the earlier this years French film "St. Omer"). The second part shows how an intelligent older son suffers as a consequence of the mother's floating relationships and the closing third covers the youngest son now matured who despite his problems comes good in sorting out his life but with no empathy with his aging mother. The two decades time span covered is taken at a leisurely pace that across the film's 100 minutes duration does not feel drawn out, though sadly like too many French films, its tendency to have passages of dialogue devoted to poetry or philosophy feels wasteful. One of those films you appreciate (the mother and child actors at all stages of their lives, are excellent) but would not ultimately rave over. A fact underlined by my being the only person watching at an afternoon screening in Chiswick! |
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