is the name of the french movie (yes, my 4th...one more to go to complete my 2011 french film festival viewing extravaganza) i saw this evening...actually it was this afternoon!
the wonderful sophie marceau was the lead actress and as always, she was fabulous! the movie was stunning - in so many ways...obviously set in france (this is always good, as i am NEVER bored with the french or parisian landscape/countryside), in french (so i could understand the odd snippet, but thankfully subtitles are improving so not too much is lost in translation) and just the most beautiful story line...
i commented to a fellow movie goer last night that one of the reasons i love french films so much is because of their simplicity - and the fact that even though the concepts or plots are rarely unique or new, the french way of telling them is what makes them the the fabulously rich experience they are...often putting a different spin on an otherwise prosaic plot line...
there is something beautifully simple about the french - and i mean that as the utmost compliment! god knows, i'm one of the worlds francophiles, loving almost anything french and honestly believing that they can do no wrong! why else would i make it a 'policy' (perhaps too strong a word but appropriate) to almost always include somewhere in france in every one of my holiday itinerarys??? in fact i can see my epitaph: 'next stop paris'...(not that i have any intention of checking out just yet! far from it, i have WAY too much yet to do and see...)
but i digress...the movie was about a woman (i'm guessing in her late 30's, early 40's) who had a visit from a notary - during the visit he gives her the first of many letters from her 7 year old self...see it turns out that when she was 7 there were some significant changes in her life and she decided to write her future self a series of letters to be delivered in late 2010...
what unfolded was an amazing, poignant, beautiful, sad, heart breaking, heart warming tale of her journey once the letters started arriving...throwing her life into chaos, necessitating the need to question one's life, purpose etc...magnifique is the only way i can describe it :-) bravo sophie marceau and director yann samuell...definitely my favourite of the 2011 offerings!
what made me a little nostalgic (actually, more than that, pretty sad really...) was Margeurite's childhood friend Philibert...their friendship reminded me so much of the friendship that Chris and I had before 'the event'...and i sat in the cinema for some time after the credits had rolled wishing that our ending could have been different...in so many ways...
ah nostalgia...
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