Le bonheur est pour demain

Sophie has a child, a partner, but her daily life seems desperately dull, without pleasure, without desires.

Until the day she meets Claude. He is funny, attractive, intelligent. She immediately falls under his spell.

But Claude is not a prince charming. He is a robber. However, during a bank robbery, a man is killed. Claude is arrested and sentenced to a heavy prison sentence.

Then begins a bizarre love story ,between a man in jail ,and a woman who goes to and fro between her home and the prison; the title ("happiness is for tomorrow" ) sounds melodrama ,and in spite of realistic scenes ( the visits in jail) , there are many melodramatic elements: the bad brutal husband and his new lover ,made up and dressed like a prostitute, the convict's ailing mom who spends half the movie bedridden in a hospital,the child more or less abducted by his parent .

In spite of Leatitia Casta's unquestionable talent (she was remarkable as Brigitte Bardot in the Gainsbourg biopic and as Arletty in "une passion coupable":and to portray such legends successfully was not an easy task )the movie drags on ,and one cannot really feel the passage of time ; too many plot holes (the escape which is given a poor dircting )too many implausibilities mar the movie ;based not a true story but on a mix of different real stories, which is not the same :it may explain a desultory screenplay .

A missed oppotunity :a good subject,a talented actress and eventually an average work.