Le malheur des autres

Without any dialogue at all, this is a bittersweet tale of this old man, living alone, who attends every funeral available in his nearer cemetary. This topic reminds me a movie from 2015: Uberto Pasolini's STILL LIFE, with more or less the same atmosphere, bittersweet without beng totally gloomy either. Jacky Berroyer is excellent in this role, the lonesome and I suppose lonely character, who attends all the funerals, who participates to every family's grief, people whom he doesn't know at all. The cemetery keeper suspicion about the presence of this man is unconvincing, because any cemetary keeper would never notice the presence of always the same man to funerals. They have something else to do. And even if they noticed, what's the harm? There is no law against it. So, in this screenplay, maybe the writers and producers forgot that the better is sometimes the enemy of the good, as we say in France. I loved the black cat crossing just in front of the lead character, entering the cemetary.