Deb 9 Dave 9
Here’s a delightful little French number with sub-titles. There’s not an overwhelming amount of dialog here, so keeping up isn’t an issue. The movie is just so interesting to watch that a lot of yakking isn’t necessary. There’s a little girl and her family and the janitor lady who keeps up the upper crust apartment building in Paris. There’s a trend in movies of having some sort of vehicle for moving from plot to plot, or just recurring and used as a symbol of some sort or another. Think of the paper blowing around in American Beauty or the Feather in Forrest Gump. This one has a good one but is ultimately unresolved and left me a bit hollow.
It’s a slow movie, but it’s the right pace here. The people in it, especially the main lady, are just good to watch, the stuff in the rooms is good to look at and there’s enough story to keep you going throughout. We both really liked the movie and caught some friends on the way out who REALLY liked it. It’s just good old fashioned human interest with a bit of a moral to the story and was a valid chunk of film making.
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