Movies have many forms of expression. In recent years, some independent directors have made a lot of attempts, and French filmmakers are particularly fond of them. The breakthrough in form is mainly to serve the content, or the needs of the content. Undoubtedly, "Two Lives of Flowers" and "Torrential Rain" are the two most successful films in terms of form breakthroughs in the past 20 years, and it can be said that they have achieved a perfect unity of the two reforms. Especially "Heavy Rain is Coming", the three inverted stories are mutually causal, and the small stories turn the big earth.
And now I want to talk about a Canadian French film "Cafe de Flore" (2011), directed by Jean-Marc Valet and starring the actor. The novelty of the film is that it is interspersed with two seemingly unrelated stories, as if the cycle of reincarnation is always reversed. One is the 2011 Montreal male protagonist Anthony, a successful DJ, has a happy family, his wife Caroline is gentle and lovely, and his two daughters are also lovely. People are always unsatisfied animals. Unconsciously, Anthony ushered in a younger and more beautiful new lover, Ross, and pain followed, and he dealt with the old and new lovers...
Another story happened in Paris in 1969. Jacqueline, played by Vanessa, left her husband for her son, and did not follow the doctor's advice for diagnosis and treatment. Young son. The son is completely shrouded in the invincible parent-child relationship, and his intelligence has gradually become normalized, but the relationship between the son and a little girl in the classroom has exceeded the limit accepted by the mother, and has reached the point of "life and death". Jacqueline fell into great pain and panic. She was afraid of losing her son. For this reason, she prevented her son from contacting the little girl again, but her son did not stop there, and the parent-child relationship suffered a disaster...
Back to reality, when Anthony said to his ex-wife Caroline, "I'm going to marry Rose." Caroline fell into the abyss, and in great loss, she found a psychic to divination her fate, and the psychic's advice hooked Her grief started. In Caroline's heart, she is always confused in the illusions like her previous life. , although she has long since died, but in the deep subconscious, she only belongs to that fairytale-like pure emotion that goes away with the wind.
Therefore, tracing back to the source, it is not difficult to find some kind of causal relationship between the two stories. Maybe the distance and the years always affect people's lives with certain factors, but people can't feel it. The little boy likes to listen to the old song "Cafe". When the mother knew that her son only had a little girl in her heart, she shredded the vinyl resolutely. The son could never hear the song he liked, nor would he ever see the one he loved. Little girl, so he must go out to find him, he won't think too much, there is only one tendon around him, he must meet her until he disappears in this world.
Here's a compliment to Vanessa's performance as a wonderful mother, her efforts to interpret a double image of love and hysteria, which must be a breakthrough for her previous role. Almost 20 years ago, we saw her amazing journey on the screen "The White Wedding". Her lovely and naughty image of a girl was deeply branded in the hearts of moviegoers, so that they couldn't extricate themselves and didn't know her. Does husband Mr. Depp often mention it?
Although this film cannot be compared with "The Two Lives of Flowers" and "The Heavy Rain is Coming" in terms of content, in terms of the coordination of its form and content, it still shows its due level. There is no need to be demanding, there is no failure in trying, only expression is the right way, so what the director expressed has been conveyed to us. Facing a strange world and a strange person, the Buddha said: "Meeting is a kind of fate." If you miss it, you will miss it forever, and only cherish the present.
2012, 10, 1
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