There are 3 things for me in this film: music, cinematography, and characters. The plot is light, quite non-existent actually, which works well.
I love the soundtrack, in fact I think I score this movie high mainly because of music. It's not trying too hard, seems quite effortless in a way it carries notes of lonely minimalism, warm melancholy and heaps of hope. It's fits nicely with the architecture of the Olympiades, celebrated by the excellent cinematography.
It's a beautiful movie about people looking for a genuine connection in a relationship. Black and white, and french - not pretentious in the slightest. I found it entertaining and lighthearted, despite some dark undertones. This isn't an ode to Paris represented by the Eiffel tower and puff pastry, it's an ode to Olympiades and therefore the kind of romance that is incredibly down to earth. Like the functional architecture - you don't only need the facade to look nice, you need this to work - relationships are supposed to be built on an authentic connection to last. My understanding of the constant hit-and-miss situations is exactly this - a search for not a perfect, but just the right fit, and the effort (struggle, in one particular case) to cherish it.
I personally find the non-judgmental writing quite refreshing. It seems that everyone in the movie had the right to make unwise decisions and learn nothing from them, and the life still goes on.
And so the characters - with their own agendas, ambitions, backgrounds, traumas, preferences, etc. Are quite an interesting bunch. The interactions and tensions, and the constant hit-and-miss situations, are exactly the plot - there's nothing less or more to it.
This isn't a tale with a moral, it's an uplifting, beautifully made, clever story.
I love the soundtrack, in fact I think I score this movie high mainly because of music. It's not trying too hard, seems quite effortless in a way it carries notes of lonely minimalism, warm melancholy and heaps of hope. It's fits nicely with the architecture of the Olympiades, celebrated by the excellent cinematography.
It's a beautiful movie about people looking for a genuine connection in a relationship. Black and white, and french - not pretentious in the slightest. I found it entertaining and lighthearted, despite some dark undertones. This isn't an ode to Paris represented by the Eiffel tower and puff pastry, it's an ode to Olympiades and therefore the kind of romance that is incredibly down to earth. Like the functional architecture - you don't only need the facade to look nice, you need this to work - relationships are supposed to be built on an authentic connection to last. My understanding of the constant hit-and-miss situations is exactly this - a search for not a perfect, but just the right fit, and the effort (struggle, in one particular case) to cherish it.
I personally find the non-judgmental writing quite refreshing. It seems that everyone in the movie had the right to make unwise decisions and learn nothing from them, and the life still goes on.
And so the characters - with their own agendas, ambitions, backgrounds, traumas, preferences, etc. Are quite an interesting bunch. The interactions and tensions, and the constant hit-and-miss situations, are exactly the plot - there's nothing less or more to it.
This isn't a tale with a moral, it's an uplifting, beautifully made, clever story.