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Time period of this film?

posted 15 years ago by groggo
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It seems to me that Jean Rochefort meets the hairdresser in the 1960s, roughly 20 years after the opening scenes, when he becomes infatuated (at the age of 12, in 1947) with the town's female hairdresser. So I assumed he was supposed to be in his early-30s. I think Rochefort's terrific, but he made this film when he was 60 years old. And he LOOKED 60 years old. I like to suspend disbelief as much as the next person, but that was stretching it. Anyone else notice this?

[–] Bob Pr. 14 years ago

Jean Rochefort is in a number of this director's movies (e.g., "Man on the Train" and others).

I think the age disparity only adds to the view that this part of the movie is Antoine's fantasy of what his life would be like married to a woman barber.

I view this section as equivalent to Max's dream of becoming king of the Wild Things in the classic book, "Where the Wild Things Are."