When I watch this film, and some others from Robert Guediguian's team, crew: Jean-PierreDarroussin, Ariana Ascaride, Gerad Meylan, I can't prevent myself to think about Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Yves Montand,....and Claude Sautet's films. More than Marcel Pagnol's style for sure, despite the South of France's settings. The magic way those two directors (Sautet and Guediguian) have to describe those characters relationship in bitter but so beautiful, poignant, moving dramas. It is so simple, brilliant, intelligent, because most of audiences can recognize themselves in those portraits. So human, so sensitive. The technicalities in term of pure directing are of course a bit different. And Marseilles is also a character in most of Robert Guédiguian's films. Pure delight despite the bitter taste in the mouth after watching. Don't confound with François Truffaut's JULES ET JIM, because of the scheme of a woman in love with two men. Or Oliver Stone's SAVAGES.
Review of Marie-Jo et ses 2 amours
