I'd say: "You can't keep a hummingbird trapped in a cage. It would eventually wither and become numb, lifeless."
Huppert is great in this.
I liked the soundtrack a lot, nice choice of songs.
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Obadiah Obadiah, Jah Jah sent us here to catch vampire
Very interesting!
It looks great. From the clips I've seen online the music seems to mesh great with the film.
I'd say "Once a loser always a loser"
I must be getting old. When she brought the hippies to lunch, I was thinking 'OMG, why is bringing bums to lunch with her daughter?'.
And they were bums with no redeeming qualities.
I do not buy into this "loser" concept. No one is a loser.
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Obadiah Obadiah, Jah Jah sent us here to catch vampire
Maybe loser is not the right word. Probably selfish and self indulgent is a more accurate description. I was a really annoyed that she did even try and not change her ways in the slightest, even when she got the break with her success in her job and even when her daughter was pretty much giving her a second chance with her, I just couldn't help but think loser when she brought those hippies to dinner when she really did not have to. It was almost as if she was sabotaging herself. How could she have thought her daughters reaction was going to be any different to the one she had?. And then at the end when she put all her earnings on a 33-1 chance (the result was so deus ex) and then blew it on some flippant self indulgent worthless wedding present was the final straw for me.
Sorry, but now that I have thought about it, she must have had some kind of mental problems to behave the way she behaved.
I prefer to think that Babou was a free soul, that's all. I love the way that character was constructed.
Living according what's right to her. Rules and traditions are not for everyone.
But maybe I'm a crazy anarchist too, according to this line of thinking you describe.
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Obadiah Obadiah, Jah Jah sent us here to catch vampire
The first film Isabelle Huppert was playing a character who tried to prove herself to someone on their banal terms? What a waste of her time, talents, and spirit. A byzantine horror!
Although it did give insight and illuminate the placid insanity that “nourished” Georges Simenon as a Belgian youth and future literary worldview.
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Isabelle Huppert is so 'sophisticated' and does so many out-there roles that even Isabelle Huppert probably likes to shake it up now and then with something closer to banal. Frankly, I am glad, it lends her more credibility as someone to take seriously as a real human being, not just some wanky, prententious wet-dream.
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