Tuesday, January 30, 2018

If You Don't, I Will 2014


     Pomme and Pierre are a married couple in their forties and they have been together a long time.  They can’t seem to get along anymore?  Predictability and giving the cold shoulder is the norm instead of passion and spontaneity.  Pomme is preparing food for a hike and Pierre says he doesn’t want to go.  She’s disappointed and she’s gone to a lot of trouble with the preparations.  He changes his mind and they go.  They get into an argument on the hike and Pomme stays behind in the Chamoiselle forest near Lyon.  Pierre takes the car and he worries about her but he doesn’t do anything.  Pomme stays several nights in the forest and then she hitches a ride to a nearby city.  She stays in a hotel one night and goes back to the forest.  
      Pomme has been on leave from her job because she is recovering from surgery for a benign brain tumor.  She learns that the company where she works has gone into receivership.  She is probably rethinking everything about her life since her health scare.  She will also need to look for other employment.  These are two intense developments in her life one after the other.  I continued to watch but I wanted to stop viewing in the beginning.  I didn’t know if it would continue to go around an around in arguments.  Pomme’s inner journey in the forest does stop the arguing.  3* (This movie is OK)
102 min, Comedy directed by Sophie Fillieres with Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Brochet, Josephine de La Baume, Nelson Delapalme, Julia Roy, David Clark, Laurent Poitrenaux, Anthony Paliotti, Alexandre Pous, Damien Gouy.
Note:  Imdb 5.8 out of 10, 71% critic 35% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3*, Amazon 3.2* out of 5* with 8 reviews, Metacritic 68 out of 100 with 10 critics.
Special Note:  Filmed in Auvergne and Rhone-Alpes, France.  The original title is Arete ou je continue or translated into Stop or I’ll Continue.  The word pomme in French means apple.  I was surprised that there are only 8 reviews on Amazon and this movie is fro 2014?

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