Beloved

a bit long and lose the rhythm sometimes but overall fun to watch... nice soundtrack with french love songs and Janacek string quartets

A messy, clumsy package of uninspired songs, sang by precarious performances, and love stories full of pleasure and pain, all of them shot by Honoré' in a chic, exquisite fashion. The thing is: these mom-and-daughter's affairs feel epic, gigantic, but also small, simple-minded, merely crowd-pleasing cinema.

(médio)

As easy/tempting as it is to trace Honore's lineage to the Nouvelle Vague/Demy, here i think the better comparison would actually be to a perfect hybrid of late-period Almodovar (the colors, the melodrama, the sexual fluidity, the women-focused narrative) and Desplechin (the epic feel applied to intimate subjects, plus the quintessential French talkiness of course). Which is to say, it's pretty fantastic, if admittedly a bit long. Plus i haven't seen Paul Schneider in anything in a while.