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J'attends quelqu'un (2007) is a French movie. Jérôme Bonnell has directed this movie. Éric Caravaca,Jean-Pierre Darroussin,Emmanuelle Devos,Florence Loiret Caille are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2007. J'attends quelqu'un (2007) is considered one of the best Drama,Romance movie in India and around the world.
Three story-lines run in parallel in a town in Ile de France. Louis, a divorced café proprietor, flirts with every woman he bumps into, but doesn't develop any deeper relationship with them, except a growing affection for Sabine, the prostitute he sees regularly at a local hotel. His sister Agnès is a teacher, and is apparently happily married to Jean-Philippe, but he works very hard and doesn't seem to have been giving her all the affection she needs recently. She bumps into Stéphane, a young man recently returned to the town whom she knew as a child. He is obsessively interested in a young family who live nearby. The film gradually explores the hidden feelings and desires of each of the main characters. Will any of them find happiness?
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J'attends quelqu'un (2007) Reviews
Worth The Wait
Those who had a problem with Jerome Bonell's first film, Le Chignon d'Olga, aren't going to find this one any easier to sit through. Bonell is an observer rather than an innovator and he seems to aspire to bring a Chekhovian melancholy to rural France without necessarily going so far as Chekhovian plotting. Two of the actresses from Chignon (Alice and Emma) turn up again in this line drawing rather than fully realized portrait of disparate lives. He's now able to attract performers of the calibre of Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Manu Devos but such is Bonnell's surefootedness they fail to outshine the lesser known actors. Not a lot happens, paint dries, grass grows and we have a ringside seat. I enjoyed it, sue me.
It's Florence Loiret's film
Jerome Bonnell has one thing in common with Orson Welles: he made his first feature while still in his twenties. Would that he had the talent of Welles too, because this little picture just about expires before it can really get going. The placid lives of Louis and his wife Agnes, her lover Jean-Philippe and the hooker, Sabine, that Louis falls for are hardly stirred at all throughout the film's running time. There is also--and I don't know why he is in the story at all--a young man named Stephane, whose life is so empty of interest that it brings the film to an uneasy halt whenever he appears in a scene. Happily, there is one exceptionally fine performance amid all this dross, that of Florence Loiret as the battered and conflicted hooker. Just watching her walk down the street seems to bring all sorts of pleasure to the viewer. The final scene between Sabine and Louis is astonishing, so very moving: Darroussin bursts into tears near the end, and I was blubbering too, it was that effective. Loiret is a regular in Bonnell's films, and I must try to see more of her.
J'attends l'intrigue (I'm waiting for the plot)
If you like French films with lingering shots of a tree, where you're not sure why you're being shown a particular scene, where you're not really all that drawn to any of the characters, and you spend the entire film trying to work out whether you will ever be shown any connection between two separate groups of characters, then this is the film for you. I was looking at my watch after fifteen minutes, just to check how long it had run without really showing anything at all. I'm afraid I like a bit more of a storyline than this, and less open questions left to the imagination of the viewer. I was thinking simply "Why?" after five minutes, and frankly the question was never answered. What was the director trying to show? I have absolutely no idea. Very good performance by Florence Loiret, though - I hope we soon see her again in something more worth watching.