If one were looking for a one-word description of this film Elegant would serve as well as any for elegance informs every frame from the concert hall of the opening sequence to the hotel where Severine is domiciled to the the bar where Husson learns this to the boutique outside which they arrange a rendez-vous to the private dining room where the rendez-vous takes place. In Germany they traditionally wrapped gifts in brown paper reasoning that it was the gift itself that mattered rather than the gift-wrap. Here we are offered exquisite layers of gift-wrap with the promise of a Faberge egg at the centre; alas, when the last layer has been lovingly unfurled we find merely a hollow enamel egg of the type once used to induce hens to lay.
Octo (now nona) genarian Olveira thinks nothing of squandering eight minutes on a redundant opening sequence of several subsequent 30 second shots of Paris by day and night, eloquent punctuation for what amounts to a stylistic shaggy dog story. I enjoyed it but once is enough.
Octo (now nona) genarian Olveira thinks nothing of squandering eight minutes on a redundant opening sequence of several subsequent 30 second shots of Paris by day and night, eloquent punctuation for what amounts to a stylistic shaggy dog story. I enjoyed it but once is enough.