"Café de flore" is a "fancy" performance film, full of rhythmic editing, fine and dense interspersed, and mood-leading music. Blurred and exaggerated dreams, illusory and perverse past and present lives, coupled with a psychic medium who is really serious, seem to make this emotional movie suspected of being transformed into a mysterious ghost movie. Fortunately, it was just a suspicion.
Excluding those bizarre and ingenious manifestations, the inside of the film is cruel and realistic. Each seemingly happy life model contains many tears and entanglements, pain, groaning, entanglement, gasping, obscurity, and confusion. Chaos, ferocious, death, etc. are all over the film. Even in some fragments, those beautiful romances that were or are like walking in the clouds have left cruel shadows in the reality, as if they placed the people in the film. In an airtight glass container, a lively dissection of the depression and cry in their hearts, just like Carol's painful face in sleepwalking in the film, his mouth wide open silently and hideously, horribly and distortedly , As if a freeze frame, to vent unbearable pain.
The film’s director Jean-Marc Varley’s literary complex is evident from the title. In the film, he does his best in literary and artistic skills, and it seems to be out of ordinary people’s lives but universally present in reality. The triangular emotional relationship of the predecessor has made a special collision and interpretation in the destiny of the predecessor and this life. After breaking the two time and space stories and the fate of several characters, they are broken up and then re-spliced according to the needs of expression. Together, it seems very arbitrary. If the audience is bored by this kind of cloud and misty expression from the beginning, and gives up watching the movie, they may miss a complicated movie watching experience.
In the melancholic but desolate picture from time to time, Paris, France in the late 1960s and Montreal, Canada now: living in Paris are a pair of mother and child, mother Jacqueline and her suffering from Down syndrome. The seven-year-old son of syndrome Lauren, mother's love, dedicated her heart. Do not ask for anything in return; Antoine and Carol, who live in Montreal, have believed in each other since they were young and believe that each other is the only one in their life. They have two daughters as adults. Carol’s love for Antoine, Also give wholeheartedly without asking for anything in return.
The film uses a lot of symbolism and suggestion to show the role and relationship between the characters in the dark. For example, when the camera is aimed at Antoine in the airport passageway to go back, a group of young people with Down syndrome Shao coming from the imaginary place seems to imply the subtle and obscure relationship between Antoine and this disease; another example is the scene of Jacqueline’s mother and son in Paris waving to the ferry on the bank of the river, and Shao An This wave of hands can be vaguely seen in the background photo of a group photo of Tovan and Carol, as if implying an incredible connection between them. There are also many scenes where the characters meet at each other, which seems to be filled with a complex emotional communication, thus expressing the mood and emotions of the characters in a delicate and profound way, such as when Antoine and Carol look at each other. Antoine will instantly present the immature appearance of his youth, while Carol is still the middle-aged man at the moment. This kind of suggestion is even more clear and sad than Jacqueline’s mother and child’s gaze.
In this film, various styles of wanton music seem to be an important perspective of interpretation. Through it, the audience feels like touching the pain and happiness of the people in the film from far and near, and the wonderful performances of the actors directly bring the infinite The endless pain and flashes of laughter are presented directly in front of the audience. Mrs. Depp, Vanessa Paradis, dedicated her most important performance since filming. She talked and showed her gestures. The wife of Depp portrayed a resolute and persistent mother who loves her son to life. She The interactive scenes with children with Down syndrome are natural, expressive, and moving.
In terms of emotional interpretation, in addition to the famous word "Soul mate", the film also uses "Twin flames". There was a deep soul exchange between the young Carol and Antoine, and their eyes looked like "twin flames." And when the sexy young Rose appeared, Antoine thought that Rose was his other soul mate, and the two of them also looked vows, although it can be seen from the film that their physical attraction is more entangled.
After all, the film only uses a very way of interpretation to resolve the inner depression of the divorced middle-aged woman. The most painful thing for Carol is to realize that her lover is not her twin flame. When I was out in a fragrant atmosphere, I reminded my mother, but Carol was confident that she and Antoine were a destined pair. Nothing is destined, just like few men are looking for a spiritual partner. In reality, what a divorced woman must do is learn to be relieved, otherwise it will only end up with all losses, at least she is injured. It's not light. Such as Carol's awakening in the nightmare in the film-excessively persistent love will make people die. In the end, when she appeared at her ex-husband’s wedding, she was calm and relieved, because the psychic gave her a channel for her to justify herself and obtain liberation after experiencing pain, that is, her past and present, and the little third Rose is Antoine’s twin flame. Just like Veronica and Lauren who were sick.
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