Marketed as a heartwarming reunion between Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve after fifteen years since their last film, A Strange Place to Meet, Changing Times is actually a bit more dramatic than the preview will lead you to believe. They play a middle-aged pair of exes who haven't seen each other in thirty years. Gérard has held a torch for Catherine, but she's moved on and married someone else. Holding a torch for someone for thirty years means it's an awful lot of pressure for the first time they see each other again. When they finally do, it's a bit of a setup for the rest of the film, since it's not how Gérard wanted it and it's not nearly as sweet as the audience would have hoped. They see each other in the highly romantic setting of a grocery store, and Gérard hurts his nose. He's bleeding; how romantic is that?
So, when you make it through that scene, you should know the rest of the movie isn't going to be flowers and rainbows. Sure, it's cute, since they made five movies together in the 1980s, but it's not so sweet it'll give you a cavity. No offense to the secondary characters, but no one's going to rent the movie to watch their stories, and during their scenes, most people will be hoping the movie cuts back to the main event soon.
So, when you make it through that scene, you should know the rest of the movie isn't going to be flowers and rainbows. Sure, it's cute, since they made five movies together in the 1980s, but it's not so sweet it'll give you a cavity. No offense to the secondary characters, but no one's going to rent the movie to watch their stories, and during their scenes, most people will be hoping the movie cuts back to the main event soon.