September 20, 2004

Demain on déménage

4stars

by: ThirteenDamnDollars
at: 11:42 PM

A good French comedy.

Flighty and recently widowed Mom has just moved in with mousey and retiring Daughter. Everything is crowded and difficult. They decide to sell the place and move. This leads to a parade of characters passing through the house. Some leave and some become part of their life.

This film is in the Masters programme, and with good reason. The very first opening shot, a grand piano suspended in the air, swaying ever so slightly is masterfully economical way of upping the tension right from the start. Years and years of family history are conveyed to the audience with the smallest glance, the slightest pause. The dialog is sharp and lyrical, in beautiful one extended scene, it falls in to a spoken fugue of real-estate speak.

Posted by ThirteenDamnDollars at September 20, 2004 11:42 PM