Fa-films focusing on family life always use delicate and natural brushstrokes to secretly flow out complex and subtle emotions. When narrating, each living body has to face many problems. Such as birth, old age, sickness and death, contradictions, estrangement, and rebellion, they are all reproduced in a relatively indifferent and quiet manner, not fierce, not pretentious, and not pretending to be deep.
Obviously these tastes have not been spared by the family in "The First Day of the Rest". Under the deconstruction of director Remy Besancon, the story presents a pleasant original flavor, like a breeze blowing over the water, bringing a little bit of excitement. Ripples and water halo. The actor's performance stretches freely, as if there is no trace of water, but it can reproduce the panoramic view of the emotions, such as when family conflicts are intensified or reconciled, most of them are through a few words and expressions of the family sitting around the table. It has reached the point, and it feels like it will come naturally.
Although the method of borrowing home video tapes has been used in many films, it seems to be very appropriate in this film. At the beginning, the shaking hands make the warm air flow exclusively for the family rushing over, and then the creators are sensitive to the details of life. The degree and reappearance skills will gurgle out, and there are many delicate and touching features. For example, after his father Robert (played by Jacques Gamblin) died, his mother Marie Jeanne (played by Zab Breitman) silently covered his work carrier-TAXI; another example, his mother sat alone In the passenger seat, place the father’s inflatable lumbar cushion under the nose and open the stopper, ecstatically attached to the breath of the husband in it...
The family events described in the film are more trivial, so fortunately, it was adopted. Flexible light and shadow vocabulary to sort out the integration, such as the interweaving and narration of personal events and family stories, the superimposition of images that express the theme's intentions, the personalized dialogue of the surging situation, and the creation of a soundtrack for the atmosphere and emotions. (By the way, the film’s The OST is good, not only fits the plot, but also has the sense of the times experienced by the character), so the structure of the film seems to be jumpy and casual, but the inside is clear. It mainly selects the most important days in the life of a family of five The intersecting presentation and smooth editing make the content of the film substantial and enjoyable.
On August 24, 1988, Duval’s eldest son Albert took his 18-year-old dog to humanitarian peace. At this time, the artist’s second son Raphael was just 18 years old, and his younger sister Ferrol In front of Gougou's grave, he said: "Without you, this home will never be the same again." This is also like saying to his elder brother Albert. Albert, who has been working for three years, chose to live independently away from home. At night, Albert is at his hometown and Raphael is at his hometown, while repeating the dialogue of an old western film broadcast on TV. At this time, a memory is accessed. When he was a boy, the brothers imitated the action of the film's lines-this Memories full of life breath make the film immediately permeated the taste of life and feelings.
The film then jumps to December 3, 1993, when the younger sister Ferrol (played by Deborah Francois) was 16 years old. This is an obscure day that is destined to be an obscure day. Ferrol went from a girl to a woman, but had a bad experience. The eldest brother had a dispute with his father, and he also beat the second brother... The film used a very meaningful scene to express the younger sister’s mind at that time. When she was about to close the bedroom door, it turned out that she was still a little girl standing outside the door watching her close the door, and she saw blood spilling from under the door... On this day, Ferrol was in his diary. Wrote-"This is the first day of the rest of my life". Growing depression and sourness are compulsory courses, and now it's Ferrol's turn. This is not a period that can be easily mixed with smoky makeup and decadent wear.
The second brother Raphael also moved out to become independent. After suffering a heartbreak, he withdrew home, and finally moved out when the film was about to end. Xu is due to the character's procrastination. His journey is also reflected in flashbacks or interruptions at different times. The phone number obtained at first sight needs to be put into practice with the help of a sudden reminder many years later. However, the call has passed Things are right and wrong. The death of his grandfather and the hopelessness of love made Raphael almost "like a baby".
In fact, the mother's situation has always appeared in all the family members every day, but it is a little more expression of the panic about her aging. Of course, through the diary, she learned about the chapters of her daughter’s experience, which was more brilliant, and it was also one of the moving parts of the film: the mother from the words that gradually went from clear to gloomy, from the experience that the daughter concealed, Such as broken love, abortion, and learned about Ferrol, unknown to his family. The director also filled Ferrol’s various encounters in the same space in turn, each time he appeared with a deep wound or a decisive look. Among them, the mother seemed to see her daughter sitting on the ground after an abortion, and she didn’t cry. The scene of helping her ask her "Do you want to put it in the trash can" is even more startling.
The story of his father Robert is also interspersed with his family’s every day, and his heart is still trapped in the estrangement from his father. After the death of his old father, Robert discovered that "clearly degraded and true love" was not good at expressing. Emotions and moods have undergone unspeakable changes, so when the eldest son got married and his grandfather passed away, the issue of whether the wedding feast would continue has become the family's biggest dispute.
The film focuses on Robert on the last day of the film. When he was planning to retire after driving a taxi for 30 years, the man born in 1945 was about to die at the age of 55. Just like the usual and impermanent in life, Robert and the eldest son reconciled four months before their death. The second son has also stepped out of the shadows at this time and started a restaurant wine promotion. This art of appraising red wine was once Luo Bell complained that his father refused to pass it on to him, but the old man passed it on to his grandson. The little daughter finally got out of bitterness, gained love, and sensibly gave her father a waist cushion...
It seems that human families are always repeating similar dramas, such as the parent-child barrier that must exist from generation to generation, and sometimes things that are difficult to tell their children. But I can easily talk to my grandchildren. When I am a child, I always hate the derogation and strong interference of my parents, but once I become a parent, I unconsciously become bitter and strong. "The family is a machine that kills feelings." It is also the bond that maintains family affection, in fact, there are both.
There is death, there must be a new life. This is the law of life. Soon after watching his mother spill his father’s ashes into the sea, at the end of the film, Ferrol holds the pregnancy test pen and feels a lot. At this time, Etienne Daho’s "Le premier jour" "Du reste de ta vie" sounded, the song is kind and gentle, slightly sad and hopeful. With the aftertaste of watching the movie, I can listen to it until the subtitles are over.
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