This
movie is based on a play by Spanish writer Juan Mayorga. Professor Germain is teaching a
literature class in a French high school.
Claude is sixteen and has started writing installments of an interesting
story that has caught the complete attention of Germain and his wife
Jeanne. Claude is the best friend
of Rapha and Claude is very interested in everything about Rapha’s house. His pretense for visiting is to help
Rapha with his low math grades.
Claude wants to found out more about is mother, his father and their family
secrets. He is constantly lurking
just outside doorways and he does a lot of snooping in the rooms. Rapha and his parents don’t know they
are Claude’s writing project.
Claude’s life is not at all like Rapha, his father is disabled and it’s just the two of them in
their home.
There
are aspects of the story that are real and other happenings are
imagination. Claude is drawn to
the family of Rapha because of the absence of his mother in his own
family. Germain and his wife
become partners in Claude’s quest to learn more about another type of
family. Possibly a family life he wants for
his own life? 3 ½* (I liked this
movie)
105 min, Drama directed by Francois Ozon with Fabrice Luchini, Ernst
Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seignr, Denis Menochet, Bastien
Ughetto.
Note: Imdb 7.4 out of 10,
89% critic 84% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3*, Amazon 4.2* out of
5* with 28 reviews.
Special Note: Filmed in Val-de-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, Essonne, Yvelines, Hauts-de-Seine and Paris, France.
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