Lelouch doesn't do bijou or minimal, even what was essentially an intimate love story, Un Homme et une femme was played out against a broad canvas of movie making and Formula 1 racing. If nothing else one has to admire not only the ambition but also the logistics involved in Les Uns et l'autres, a tapestry that weaves together three generations of four disparate families linked initially by World War II and secondly by equally disparate music encompassing ballet, classical and pop. Though the stories themselves are often ordinary to the point of banality we are never very far from spectacle in one form or another and from a motley group of fine actors I would single out Nicole Garcia's Jewish violinist whose husband perishes in the camps with honorable mention to that husband, Robert Hossein, plus Jacques Villeret and James Caan whilst Fanny Ardant was barely on screen long enough for her performance to be assessed. An exceptional film.
Review of Bolero
