Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA family ,who celebrates the mother's birthday ,tries to pick up the pieces.A family ,who celebrates the mother's birthday ,tries to pick up the pieces.A family ,who celebrates the mother's birthday ,tries to pick up the pieces.
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Several months after the death of the father , the mother ,her son and her daughter get together in their modest flat in a project ("Villeperdue"(= Lost city) does exist ,but the events do not take place in this small village in the "Centre" region ).In movies, Family gatherings generally happen in rather rich-looking houses with well-off people where most of the problems are essentially psychological.Here the characters we meet come from a humble background :we do not even know if the sister works; the mother probably lives on a reversion pension,which is not much ;as for the son,he is a private ,not even a NCO: he seems to enjoy his being in the army ;we learn he is presently training in a boot camp (the last pictures show him there).
This mother-and-children reunion , to celebrate mom's birthday should be a moment's happiness ;however, deep wounds appear now and then ;the past remains vague but the mother claims that they have left her alone; she probably dreams of a reconstituted family with long-distance truck driver Regis and his daughter ;note that during the long sequence by the river where the children have a swim , Gaev introduces her new friend to their family but the night has fallen when Vincent shakes hands with him .Anyway ,the mother appears as a grown up kid ,who still acts as though she was in her twenties ;the intimate scenes are not always convincing,sometimes hysterical ,with lots of swearwords ,sometimes convivial,without apparent reason ;in spite of this reservation ,the director succeeds in making us believe there is something wrong in their relationship ,with revealing little details : the children smear the birthday cake with Chantilly cream (whipped cream) bought in a supermarket ,and they do not even bring a single present to their mom (only Regis does).
It's a very short movie (52 min) and ,in spite of obvious qualities, this work leaves us hungry for more;we haven't got enough time to make this family unit's acquaintance ;the soundtrack includes opera arias ,which may seem turgid to some ;but anyway ,kudos to the director for including a song in French ("Confidences Pour Confidences") whereas most of his colleagues opt for the obligatory English/American track(s).
This mother-and-children reunion , to celebrate mom's birthday should be a moment's happiness ;however, deep wounds appear now and then ;the past remains vague but the mother claims that they have left her alone; she probably dreams of a reconstituted family with long-distance truck driver Regis and his daughter ;note that during the long sequence by the river where the children have a swim , Gaev introduces her new friend to their family but the night has fallen when Vincent shakes hands with him .Anyway ,the mother appears as a grown up kid ,who still acts as though she was in her twenties ;the intimate scenes are not always convincing,sometimes hysterical ,with lots of swearwords ,sometimes convivial,without apparent reason ;in spite of this reservation ,the director succeeds in making us believe there is something wrong in their relationship ,with revealing little details : the children smear the birthday cake with Chantilly cream (whipped cream) bought in a supermarket ,and they do not even bring a single present to their mom (only Regis does).
It's a very short movie (52 min) and ,in spite of obvious qualities, this work leaves us hungry for more;we haven't got enough time to make this family unit's acquaintance ;the soundtrack includes opera arias ,which may seem turgid to some ;but anyway ,kudos to the director for including a song in French ("Confidences Pour Confidences") whereas most of his colleagues opt for the obligatory English/American track(s).
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- Tempo di esecuzione
- 52min
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- 2.35 : 1
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