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Possible romance between Adrien and the farm owner

posted 19 years ago by missjamiekitty86
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Does anyone else think there was a little bit of romance possibly between Adrien and the older man she bought the farm from? I thought this movie was charming and beautifully shot. I wish there had been romance between the older man and Adrien. Reply please. Being a girl who grew up on a farm in America, I'm also interested to hear what French people think of this movie.

I could be angry but I'm not, because there's just so much beauty in the world.- American Beauty

[–] corrslite 19 years ago

Adrien is the farmer! Sandrine is the so-called "girl from Paris".

Put one lonely woman and one lonely man in certain settings and "romance" or chemistry will more than likely develop. That is why, after dancing the waltz together and then dreaming about her, Adrien makes sure the power is restored to Sandrine's quarters.

I love this film because of its simplicty, scenery and realism~~how about that hog shot (pin intended) when Mathilde Seignor didn't know beforehand what they were going to do in that scene.

I just ordered the brand new 2-dvd edition from amazon.fr (france).

[–] mac_alain 15 years ago

That is why, after dancing the waltz together and then dreaming about her, Adrien makes sure the power is restored to Sandrine's quarters.

And more to the point, it was Adrien who stopped the dance. There is no ambiguity.

[–] PlatinumScreen 8 years ago

I love this film because of its simplicty, scenery and realism~~how about that hog shot (pin intended) when Mathilde Seignor didn't know beforehand what they were going to do in that scene.

The animal slaughter scenes were complete shocks to me, but they drew a worthy contrast to the beauty of the film's scenery. I didn't know the French mountains were so gorgeous, and since the film is about a working farm, it would've been a little disingenuous to only show Sandrine prancing the meadows with her goats.

corrslite, you say something very interesting to me--that Mathilde Seignor didn't know they were going to shoot the hog beforehand. So the director did not tell her what was coming so an authentic reaction could be achieved? If that's the case, that's so like Hitchcock and what he did to Tippi Hedren in The Birds!

[–] Schumius 18 years ago

That might crossed Adrien's mind, but it's a bit ambiguous. As to Sandrine, I'm pretty sure that there's none, not in the sense of romantic love.

[–] gemmastar 18 years ago

SPOILERS

I am not so sure she doesn't have feelings for him. He embraces and kisses him warmly when he comes back from the hospital. And he caresses him again while the funeral. She is very interested in his relationship with his dead wife. Probably it will happen. Remember she comes back just for him.

[–] mac_alain 15 years ago

I am not so sure she doesn't have feelings for him.

There are feelings, and then there are feelings.

He embraces and kisses him warmly when he comes back from the hospital.

Because they are both glad to see each other again. As friends. No more, no less.

Probably it will happen.

Most definitely not: we would be entering bizarre territory here. Remember the age difference for goodness sake.

Remember she comes back just for him.

So?

[–] LorneMalvo 17 years ago

That would have been nasty. She did what she did and that's that.

[–] boerpoel 15 years ago

Mutual loneliness and a moment of affection for each other, was what I felt from that scene... / nothing in a romantic sense, IMO.

[–] linda303 15 years ago

No. Absolutely not. She is not desperate, she is not lonely. She has her handsome, loving young man in Paris whenever she wants and needs him. I am sure she saw the old man as her father, who left her when she was very young.

I mean, really. That's disgusting. She's 30, he's 70. Would you be presuming this if the gender roles were reversed?!

[–] stevem-26 15 years ago

>>I mean, really. That's disgusting. She's 30, he's 70.

I despair of the streak of Puritanism which has crept into our now benighted excuse for a culture. May-December is an old theme, in life and in film.

What will be the state of your heart, Linda303, when you have reached 70?

I wonder if you think that George Roy Hill's superb films, "A Little Romance", and "The World of Henry Orient" are kiddie porn.

I suppose I'm a bit sorry to be putting out such "edge", but I'm 63, you see.

[–] whraglyn-2 15 years ago

My 25 year old wife was not 'desperate' when we married 4 years ago when I was 47. We each have been far happier personally, and more successful professionally, since we have been together than with any other person in our lives so far.

No one, let alone the OP, asked about your POV on the idea in general, just for thoughts regarding the possibility of romance between the leads of this film.

Had you an ounce of sense or decency you would have realized the OP may have personal feelings about this subject, and you would have posted something a bit less personal in reply.

[–] mac_alain 15 years ago

Your age difference, whraglyn-2, is 22 years. The age difference of the characters in the film is in the region of 40(!) years. Big difference.

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[–] chicago85 15 years ago

I think he saw in her eventually after they got to know each other's history, the child he and his wife lost. They had no other children. He commented on how lonely her mother must be since she was an only child and her father left them when she was young. He then told her he hoped she would contact her mother more often than she had been doing. She told him she and her mother had few pictures growing up unlike him when he sowed her the family album of the farm.

I don't think it meant as much to her until his best friend died.

If you see the featurette on the dvd, the real farm owner who was retiring talked about how isolated it was in the winter. He said the weather was so bad in 1962 that he couldn't get his wife to town when their baby was due. He said the doctor made it somehow two hours after it was born.

[–] PlatinumScreen 8 years ago

I can't help but believe Adrien was attracted to Sandrine in every way a man can possibly be for a woman, and yes, that includes romantically and sexually. He entertained that thought. She's beautiful, so why wouldn't he no matter his or her ages? He was also very isolated and lonely which steered his thoughts probably.

However, I believe Sandrine grew to look on him like a father and friend.