YOU are Young, You are Beautiful
Yesterday night I saw a nice French Movie
Vous êtes jeunes vous êtes beaux -
Written and Directed by Franchin Don, the movie belongs to the main lead veteran actor Gerard Darmon who plays the role of an old poor pensioner Lucious Marnant, who is slowly dying with an unrecoverable ailment.
He has a soul-mate Mona (Josiane Balasko) - another aged lady with whom he shares moments of LOVE at her apartment
By chance Lucious comes across an agent Lahire (Vincent Winterhalter) who offers him an illegal gaming sport of old-age boxing in return for good money for his private retirement home.
With no money, no family, no hope left in life Lucious agrees to earn some boxing bouts for spending a few pleasurable moment with Mona on a trip to Mona's relatives at Mona's ancestral home., On arrival they realize that her relatives has already abandoned the home and Mona - leading her to commit suicide- but she survives (bed-ridden in a coma)
Lucious also meets an old friend Loyal (Denis Lavant) in a similar dire strait of old-age with no one to care who is knocked dead in another fight.
There is so much pain luring all over the frames. The darkness, the camera, the melancholy of being old with no one to have around.
It is a disturbing movie with such unsaid under current commentary of the under-belly of modern-age of urban jungles where people cheer and bet / profit on old people fighting and killing each other. NO ONE CARES...
Brilliantly shot - beautifully canvased, subtly acted, nuanced performances by all cast
With an aristocratic flawless act - Gerard Darmon carries the whole movie on his shoulder - single-handedly.
A very well made movie - with lots of thoughts and effort gone into it. A good movie to watch
I would go with 7.25 out of 10 for this gem.
Written and Directed by Franchin Don, the movie belongs to the main lead veteran actor Gerard Darmon who plays the role of an old poor pensioner Lucious Marnant, who is slowly dying with an unrecoverable ailment.
He has a soul-mate Mona (Josiane Balasko) - another aged lady with whom he shares moments of LOVE at her apartment
By chance Lucious comes across an agent Lahire (Vincent Winterhalter) who offers him an illegal gaming sport of old-age boxing in return for good money for his private retirement home.
With no money, no family, no hope left in life Lucious agrees to earn some boxing bouts for spending a few pleasurable moment with Mona on a trip to Mona's relatives at Mona's ancestral home., On arrival they realize that her relatives has already abandoned the home and Mona - leading her to commit suicide- but she survives (bed-ridden in a coma)
Lucious also meets an old friend Loyal (Denis Lavant) in a similar dire strait of old-age with no one to care who is knocked dead in another fight.
There is so much pain luring all over the frames. The darkness, the camera, the melancholy of being old with no one to have around.
It is a disturbing movie with such unsaid under current commentary of the under-belly of modern-age of urban jungles where people cheer and bet / profit on old people fighting and killing each other. NO ONE CARES...
Brilliantly shot - beautifully canvased, subtly acted, nuanced performances by all cast
With an aristocratic flawless act - Gerard Darmon carries the whole movie on his shoulder - single-handedly.
A very well made movie - with lots of thoughts and effort gone into it. A good movie to watch
I would go with 7.25 out of 10 for this gem.
- rajdoctor
- Dec 1, 2021