Un Homme Et Une Femme
Posted: October 16th, 2010, 5:38 pm
What a sheer delight this film is. I knew I was going to like it when the credits rolled and the music started and I saw the pier before me.
I love everything I've seen with Anouk Aimee in, that's why I searched for this film and it's one of the best films she's done. I confess when the screen started changing between black and white and colour I hoped I wasn't watching an experimental film, I wanted so much to watch the love story promised by the title. However I felt the use of both very well done and enhanced the film and the flashbacks.
SPOILERS AHEAD
It was a beautiful love story albeit with an unconventional ride. A story of two parents, both widowed who's children board at a school in Deauville were they both travel to every weekend whilst living and working in Paris during the week. He is a racing driver (so there's something for the men in this movie) and she is a script girl. Her husband was a stunt man who died when a stunt went wrong, his wife committed suicide when he was badly hurt in a crash. The mother, Anouk Aimee and the father, Jean Louis Trintignant become friends, then close friends then lovers. When they become lovers the anticipation and promise does not work out as planned for one of them. The result is another movie ended perfectly on a railway station.
Both lovers feel very real, in the film we inhabit their thoughts although they don't always go the way we expect but we feel we know them and understand their actions, we want it to work for them too. The love scenes are beautifully and tenderly filmed, showing how sometimes the head and the heart want different things.
The soundtrack, I'm sure I'm going to be humming it for a while now is very sixties, apart from one segment which is used now for our Panorama programme which is a current affairs programme, aside from that it's great.
I love everything I've seen with Anouk Aimee in, that's why I searched for this film and it's one of the best films she's done. I confess when the screen started changing between black and white and colour I hoped I wasn't watching an experimental film, I wanted so much to watch the love story promised by the title. However I felt the use of both very well done and enhanced the film and the flashbacks.
SPOILERS AHEAD
It was a beautiful love story albeit with an unconventional ride. A story of two parents, both widowed who's children board at a school in Deauville were they both travel to every weekend whilst living and working in Paris during the week. He is a racing driver (so there's something for the men in this movie) and she is a script girl. Her husband was a stunt man who died when a stunt went wrong, his wife committed suicide when he was badly hurt in a crash. The mother, Anouk Aimee and the father, Jean Louis Trintignant become friends, then close friends then lovers. When they become lovers the anticipation and promise does not work out as planned for one of them. The result is another movie ended perfectly on a railway station.
Both lovers feel very real, in the film we inhabit their thoughts although they don't always go the way we expect but we feel we know them and understand their actions, we want it to work for them too. The love scenes are beautifully and tenderly filmed, showing how sometimes the head and the heart want different things.
The soundtrack, I'm sure I'm going to be humming it for a while now is very sixties, apart from one segment which is used now for our Panorama programme which is a current affairs programme, aside from that it's great.