2023-11-28 04:21:00
A great intimate fresco, the feature film with its superficial characters suffers from its excess of intention and the heaviness of its demonstration.
Ambitious in its nature as a large intimate fresco, and pleasant in its inscription of a couple loving each other beyond any norm, Katell Quillévéré’s Time to Love suffers from an excess of intention and a heaviness of demonstration . Anaïs Demoustier plays Maddy, a young woman shorn during the Liberation because she was pregnant by a German officer (the film opens with archive images), and Vincent Lacoste, in the guise of François, will be her lifeline, young lame doctoral student with homosexual inclinations that a marriage suits as much as she does. The couple becomes attached and endures despite everything (but really everything – class differences, a romantic trio with a black GI, furtive embraces from François which will earn him an arrest and a tragic end…) and despite this very contemporary way of considering the union, we never really believe it, the characters seeming frozen on the surface of postcards sent from a bygone time.
Le Temps d’aimer by Katell Quillévéré, with Anaïs Demoustier and Vincent Lacoste, 2:05 a.m.
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