What struck me immediately when I spotted this DVD in a library was the unlikely teaming of the two leads; Yvan Attal personifies aggressiveness, virility, a sort of thinking man's ferret, hyper-active and largely insensitive whereas Bruni Tedeschi personifies fragility, porcelain beauty, vulnerability, I've more or less wanted to protect her in virtually every film I've seen her in because she exudes that rare quality that Judy Garland had. This is definitely Valeria's kind of film and by now she could phone it in; it's very much in the groove of Marion Vernoux's Rien a faire even though Kahn is light years short of Vernoux on the basis of these two movies. I would and will continue to watch Valeria in anything but I won't be in a hurry to watch this one again nor buy the DVD.
Review of Regrets
