Just saw this and can only say that it is a long and dragging movie. There are so many scenes that could be cut and be compressed or are just down right not needed at all.
In the end the story is a tragedy about how a girl gets into the wrong place at the wrong time and has ended up in prison due to her actions. She does though have a repentant father who loves her enough to spend his life's savings to regularly travel to see her far far away from where he lives and works.
The characters are never really given a thorough background so you don't really understand why they act like they do. The daughter's behaviour is bratty and like a spoilt child toward her father, even though his committment to her. Yeah, sure, he might have been a poor father once but committing to seeing her regularly for 5 years should one would hope make her put two and two together but that does not seem the case.
The father meets a former "Parisienne" who just embodies all that is wrong with big city intellectuals. She has is forced to move from Paris when she has had an out of wedlock child with a beach bar owner who's business is in Corsica. So instead of trying to make sure the child is close to the father she goes back to Paris, and then Marseille, to live her own life as an actress.
The movie is touching and the only person you really understand is the father and his actions to clear his daughter's name and be able to leave prison.
Was it worth 2 hours and 20 minutes of my time, not really, so unless you're a Matt Damon fan, I would not recommend you to see it. The acting was though good, the environments and the social commentary is interesting but otherwise I would not recommend this movie.
In the end the story is a tragedy about how a girl gets into the wrong place at the wrong time and has ended up in prison due to her actions. She does though have a repentant father who loves her enough to spend his life's savings to regularly travel to see her far far away from where he lives and works.
The characters are never really given a thorough background so you don't really understand why they act like they do. The daughter's behaviour is bratty and like a spoilt child toward her father, even though his committment to her. Yeah, sure, he might have been a poor father once but committing to seeing her regularly for 5 years should one would hope make her put two and two together but that does not seem the case.
The father meets a former "Parisienne" who just embodies all that is wrong with big city intellectuals. She has is forced to move from Paris when she has had an out of wedlock child with a beach bar owner who's business is in Corsica. So instead of trying to make sure the child is close to the father she goes back to Paris, and then Marseille, to live her own life as an actress.
The movie is touching and the only person you really understand is the father and his actions to clear his daughter's name and be able to leave prison.
Was it worth 2 hours and 20 minutes of my time, not really, so unless you're a Matt Damon fan, I would not recommend you to see it. The acting was though good, the environments and the social commentary is interesting but otherwise I would not recommend this movie.