This is a lovely romantic film, with a tad too much melodrama. Romantic and inviting settings with silky cinematography and a brilliant cast promise much more than the film finally offers Peter Coyote and Greta Scacchi enrich the core of the narrative. Supporting players play nuances well.
The director Diane Kurys obviously loves the locales she uses. I too love them.
However, the director wastes Scacchi, as have other directors wasted her in too many films. Scacchi is simply too intelligent to be a constant sexual fantasy of a subordinate woman. She played the ingénue not longer than she could but longer than she needed to play that role.
In the end, the film is not quite ostentatious and wearisome. It is what it is, a romance played to despair. It is not Truffaut but it resonates sometimes with that sense of life. Someday, I would love to hear commentary by the directors and players.I think it well worth viewing.
The director Diane Kurys obviously loves the locales she uses. I too love them.
However, the director wastes Scacchi, as have other directors wasted her in too many films. Scacchi is simply too intelligent to be a constant sexual fantasy of a subordinate woman. She played the ingénue not longer than she could but longer than she needed to play that role.
In the end, the film is not quite ostentatious and wearisome. It is what it is, a romance played to despair. It is not Truffaut but it resonates sometimes with that sense of life. Someday, I would love to hear commentary by the directors and players.I think it well worth viewing.