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7/10
Story written from life
SUBU00128 June 2005
Warning: Spoilers
Nice story about a little child (Mathilde) who runs away from home in Paris, where she lives with her mother, who is divorced from Mathildes father. Mathilde chases up her grandpa to 'escape' from an pension hospital searching for her grandma (Madelaine, who was the big love of the grandpa but was left from him as she had an affair with his best friend 30 years ago)

The child's mother looking for her daughter find both near the Spain border. She never saw her mother since she was 10, as her father never forgave Madelaine. Thus she realizes now what she has missed in her life and is going together with her daughter to a small Spanish village.

At the end both find Madelaine; but she is old and cannot remember or recognize anybody anymore.

Nice and emotional story told with humor and sensibility.

The statement is that you cannot get back forgiven possibilities in your life (without risking that it will be to late) as well as it is never to late trying to forgive people their mistakes.

Well acted from Sandrine Bonnaire, Claude Rich and -especially- Loisa Pili as little Mathilde
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8/10
Rich story-telling
threeJane20 November 2008
This is such a rich story that it could entertain and succeed in several ways, depending on your point of view. It's a story about old age, about family relationships, and wise characters who know when to stay quiet.

For myself, it was a story of how children can trick you, or charm you, or drag you kicking and screaming out of your comfort zone. And where did they learn to do all this? From none other than ourselves, when we did it to them. Still, they seem to be so much better at it than us; our comfort zones are so much more rusted into place.

Just an observation: Why are middle-aged heroines in French films so often called Helene?
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a story. maybe, familiar
Kirpianuscus8 July 2018
For many reasons, this film is a must see. first - for actors. and their performances. and the meet between Claude Rich and Sandrine Bonnaire gace to a touching, complex, almost provocative story. second - for a beautiful plot like an old tree. not the less - for the chance to be a story about yourself. and, sure, for the end. as answer. as conclusion. as expression of a sort of miracle in different skin by you expect. a French film about a family. his past. and the fight for create the right future.
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