Wo in Paris die Sonne aufgeht

I was very disappointed with this movie. I like Audiard's work, he has made some excellent movies, and I was looking forward to watch this, but I found it empty, with all its supposed sexiness feeling quite shallow. The actors are ok, but their characters are superficial, and I couldn't care less of what happens to them. Even the black and white is not pretty. I think it was selected for Cannes 2021 only because of the reputation of Audiard.

French director Jacques Audiard tells a heartwarming story of lovers finding their paths in Paris. The film follows a handful of characters searching for happiness in the French capital. The sensual warmth of the sex scenes is intimate. The script is written by Audiard together with Céline Sciamma and Léa Mysius. It's loosely based on three stories in the cartoonist Adrian Tomine's collection "Killing and Dying." It isn't a literal adaptation, though there are points of connection with the original work. What unites them is how lives abruptly change and even shatter in a single moment, like in a kiss.

What you see in a black and white frame are three women and a man, sex, sexuality,. I guess I'll have to work harder to understand it. It doesn't seem to be telling me anything. I read the reviews. I know it's an award-winner. I guess it doesn't speak to me.

The setting is Paris, 13th district. Youth culture. The fast life of millennials. Aspirations. Vanity. Egotistic admiration of one's idealised self-image and attributes. Sex. Love. Loneliness.

Written and directed by the veteran French filmmaker Jacques Audiard and shot predominantly in black-and-white monochrome, Les Olympiades, Paris 13e (2021) is adapted from three interweaving stories about sex and love by the American comic book artist Adrian Tomine.

The film is about the hope (and hopelessness) of being a millennial and trying to find your place in this fast-moving world.

It's pure honey 🍯 of an adventure into what can be shared and what is not for sharing in relationships in a laconic suburb of life and Paris, testing the limits of groking and groping for the comfort of the bourgeoisie and the meaning of commuting.

Is that all there is, my friends....it is shot as intimately as it feels....and it is impossible to put down once you experience a bit of questing sensuality.