As an Australian reviewing a French film with English sub-titles screening at the 21st French Film festival in Australia in Mar 2010 it's apparent my review is going to be vastly different to the first one here. 2nd film of the festival of 43 films think have found my favourite film for this year. My biggest question is where have this body of actors been hiding/been hidden?
Carole Bouquet as Julia the mother, tall, elegant, easy on the eye, shift over Charlotte Rampling. Pierre Arditi as the author.. what a character. Looking back I've seen him earlier in "Private Fears in Public Places" and a real 2004 favourite "The First time I turned 20" But they must have been minor parts with less attractive characters and certainly characters with less to say. Here he dominates the screen, charming one minute, cutting the next (I wonder who played his maid in this film)
Anne Marivin playing the blonde lonely heart 30s unable to have children moving to Canada was also in "Welcome to the Sticks" She looks a bit like a french Kylie Minogue. Her's is the sort of part perhaps a Cameron Diaz would play elsewhere. Patrick Mille who plays Oliver the separated father with the very cute 7 or 8 year old daughter. Look as I might I cannot find the name of the actress who played his daughter. Pictures yes but not a name. His character here reminds me of Alan from Two and Half Men.
The only name I could really recognize here was Cecile Cassel surely the sister of Vincent. She plays Anna the lesbian (or was it the confused) daughter of Julia. I really liked Melanie Thierry the pregnant daughter of Julia, driver of the AUDI and sister of Anna. Then there is Anne Marvins 4 friends in the film.
Rich, colourful settings, a film with a lot of dialogue, great camera work, attractive to the eye, ear and soul. All checked. People taking risks on romance, offers and counter offers, change. We see the author start to write again.. I wonder if his life diary slipped into the little girls backpack on the plane by Julia makes its way back to her editor father in France?
A combination of great writing, smart stylish location, the right theme if you like people and romance and fate entwined make this an extremely enjoyable 95 mins. There's a touch of "Italian for Beginners" and certainly at times "You'll miss me" climbs the Mount Everest of romantic /romantic comedy genre.
For me I'll miss the characters of "You'll miss me" They could happily spin off a few sequels here and I'd be lining up for more. Surely for many of the cast this ensemble piece is their finest hour and writer director Amanda Sthers has made her mark and is one to watch. I wonder how many words there is in this script. It's certainly wordy but for those of us who like romance it's music to the ears.
Year in, year out we see Depardieu, Rampling, Auteuil, Dussollier and way too much Jean Pierr Darroussin (some of whom must be directors favourites). Of course personal favourites like any of the Seigners and the Frots we cannot get enough of. Some years we are flooded by Cecile France, this year it's Vincent Lindon.
It's a real eye opener for an outsider/non resident of France to see "You'll miss me" and to see all these actors who must be otherwise normally engaged in television or earlier minor parts rise to the top. Performance wise and character wise what an engaging lot they are!
For some additional stills from the film http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=126895.html
Carole Bouquet as Julia the mother, tall, elegant, easy on the eye, shift over Charlotte Rampling. Pierre Arditi as the author.. what a character. Looking back I've seen him earlier in "Private Fears in Public Places" and a real 2004 favourite "The First time I turned 20" But they must have been minor parts with less attractive characters and certainly characters with less to say. Here he dominates the screen, charming one minute, cutting the next (I wonder who played his maid in this film)
Anne Marivin playing the blonde lonely heart 30s unable to have children moving to Canada was also in "Welcome to the Sticks" She looks a bit like a french Kylie Minogue. Her's is the sort of part perhaps a Cameron Diaz would play elsewhere. Patrick Mille who plays Oliver the separated father with the very cute 7 or 8 year old daughter. Look as I might I cannot find the name of the actress who played his daughter. Pictures yes but not a name. His character here reminds me of Alan from Two and Half Men.
The only name I could really recognize here was Cecile Cassel surely the sister of Vincent. She plays Anna the lesbian (or was it the confused) daughter of Julia. I really liked Melanie Thierry the pregnant daughter of Julia, driver of the AUDI and sister of Anna. Then there is Anne Marvins 4 friends in the film.
Rich, colourful settings, a film with a lot of dialogue, great camera work, attractive to the eye, ear and soul. All checked. People taking risks on romance, offers and counter offers, change. We see the author start to write again.. I wonder if his life diary slipped into the little girls backpack on the plane by Julia makes its way back to her editor father in France?
A combination of great writing, smart stylish location, the right theme if you like people and romance and fate entwined make this an extremely enjoyable 95 mins. There's a touch of "Italian for Beginners" and certainly at times "You'll miss me" climbs the Mount Everest of romantic /romantic comedy genre.
For me I'll miss the characters of "You'll miss me" They could happily spin off a few sequels here and I'd be lining up for more. Surely for many of the cast this ensemble piece is their finest hour and writer director Amanda Sthers has made her mark and is one to watch. I wonder how many words there is in this script. It's certainly wordy but for those of us who like romance it's music to the ears.
Year in, year out we see Depardieu, Rampling, Auteuil, Dussollier and way too much Jean Pierr Darroussin (some of whom must be directors favourites). Of course personal favourites like any of the Seigners and the Frots we cannot get enough of. Some years we are flooded by Cecile France, this year it's Vincent Lindon.
It's a real eye opener for an outsider/non resident of France to see "You'll miss me" and to see all these actors who must be otherwise normally engaged in television or earlier minor parts rise to the top. Performance wise and character wise what an engaging lot they are!
For some additional stills from the film http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=126895.html