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Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart) is a 25-year-old Parisian simultaneous multiple jobs, married to Jerome (Charles Berling), an apathetic standing spends his time lying in bed watching television. She, one day she meets Mr. Arnaud (Michel Serrault), an old friend of her friend Jacqueline (Claire Nadeau). Speaking in a cafe, tells its economic problems, and immediately offered to lend Arnaud enough money without any commitment for repayment. At first Nelly declines the offer, but when comes home telling lies to her husband who has accepted the aid. This sudden and uncertain decision will take to break their marriage. And with him, his previous life. Nelly just accepting the offer of Arnaud and in gratitude offered to transcribe his memoirs.
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As was the case in his previous film, A Heart in Winter (1991) also starring Emmanuelle Béart, Claude Sautet shows signs of having a great insight to uncover the ultimate reality of characters caught in a time of uncertainty. The film touches on the relationship between a young woman and a man on the threshold of old age, joined by a common sense of existential failure. Nelly looks strong and determined, but in the end is in dire need of others. Arnaud's character is afraid of himself, unable to sublimate their love for Nelly. Sautet speaks of the difficulty of maintaining full relations with sentimental, are feelings of love or friendship. It is difficult to find inner balance. Nelly feels caught between the love he feels still to be ex-husband, the editor attractive figure of Vincent (Jean-Hugues Anglade) and envelope retired judge personality. There is a very significant sequence beautiful. One in which Nelly and Arnaud dine at a fancy restaurant (with more people in customer service, so it is so expensive, ironically Arnaud). Is an important moment because it seems that for the first time the two lower their defenses and are shown as they are. Eat, drink, lazy days. Talking and having fun. But she then goes home to Vincent, the editor, and make love for the first time. Meanwhile, in parallel montage, we see Arnaud, alone in her kitchen, sipping a glass of milk without sleep. This is a story of solitude and also a film about the relinquishment. A waiver based on the disparity of the people. The feeling of it for he is not the same as him for it. Arnaud wants to take a picture that is Nelly, I love her beauty inaccessible, but when the front of it, is blocked. There comes a time where you least important is to see your manuscript published, just wants to have her around .. For her, Arnaud is a haven in a time of uncertainty vital. There is a scene, and well advanced with the film, on which Sautet seems to articulate all the talk, if any, of the film. It is an image of a powerful symbolic weight in a film that never wants to get out of the ordinary. A great love scene is reduced to when Arnaud sits next to the bed where she sleeps, and almost ghostly presence. She turns and says that if you can not sleep. He tells her not to go and takes his hand. Significant is the former judge's decision to get rid of its valuable library, once it has appeared behind Nelly computer.
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This excursion into the realm of feelings buried, the barriers that hinder the expression of emotions, Claude Sautet chooses the Auter and visual conciseness. His style is a no-look style simple, with little camera movement, only those necessary to follow the actors. A moderation in the staging that strives for transparency, but also the complicity of the viewer. No underlining or explanations. Countershot flat in all its variants are the dominant figure, hence the need for precise order of the scenes to get the rhythm demanded by the film. The end of each scene support in a sustained level for a few seconds provoking the viewer. Nelly and Mr. Arnaud can be cold and impenetrable to those who do not make the effort his eyes leisurely stroll through the planes of the film. His images speak of loneliness and tears, of emotional isolation, but the film goes quiet and serene, stripped of all melodramatic tone of any temptation psychological and ornamental everything that distracts. The result is like Nelly, glacial beauty and sadness of an attractive charged.
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