The debut in the feature film of the directors Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller a tender and gentle tale interpreted by Karin Viard and Grgory Gadebois
There is still room in our life for tender fairy tales and kind, no superheroes or superheroes and maybe without tears o bloodshed? We are still willing to let ourselves go to a dream who wants to forget the ugliness of the world and for the space of an hour and a half speaks to us in a low voice and seeks alone sweetness e romance? To believe it are a couple of young French people, Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller, already awarded a Csar (the French David) for On timetoday beginners in the feature film with Maria and love (than the original Maria rvethat is, Mary dreams, emphasizes their choice of field more).
The protagonist Maria, played by a convincing Karin Viarda woman who earns her living by cleaning and who, after the death of the old lady she worked for, is assumed at the Academy of Fine Arts with the same functions. At home he leaves every day an husband in Existential crisis (Philippe Uchan), who tries to forget unemployment by stunned with fado (of Portuguese origin) and unable to forgive her daughter who ran away with her best friend. It is inevitable that Maria ends up getting herself conquer dal colorful world that he finds at the Academy, made up of students looking for (bizarre) ways to art, of colleagues with their daily problems, of small or big secrets (the secretary who hides to give herself to the professor, played by the two directors) and especially from Hubert (Grgory Gadebois), the caretaker with the passion for dancing who knows all the secrets of the building that houses the Academy.
I said one kind fairytale and therefore one should not expect who knows what twists. And given Hubert’s instinctive sympathy, it doesn’t take long to understand that between him and Maria there is turn on something. If anything, the doubt concerns the developments than the inevitable one sparkbecause consubstantial fidelity to the reserved and shy character of the woman, in whose He let go professional and existential the film (scripted by the two directors) finds its true raison d’etre. She explains it perfectly Maria when they ask her if she likes the job she does: Doing cleaning not a job that you choose […] but it has its own dignit. Maybe people don’t notice it but we give it back environments more comfortable … then we see everything, we are everywhere, but we never say anything, to conclude with And I like this.
Here she is best thing of the film just the portrait of this congratulations without wishesof this compliance with no regrets which Mary mistakes as her own manifest destiny: she never even imagined being able to do other things, to be able aspire to another lifeat least until the day when the kindly transgressive atmosphere of the Academy opens her eyes to another one possible life. For example, noticing the charm and beauty of a body eternally bundled up under aprons and jackets. It is the path that leads Mary to accept to do the nude model for the students not only the opportunity to give the shy Hubert the chance to see her as he never would have imagined, but it turns out to be a important step along the path that will push her to become aware of her femininity and to accept her own health desire for exhibitionism (moreover contagious, as will be discovered in the film). First, fundamental step towards that acceptance of s and gods own wishes which brings us back to the above kind tale.
Of course, in the end it all flows up binary too much straight and oiled. The direction of the two rookies seems fearful enough to dare something that goes beyond a staging traditional in its correctness (but then, why complain about a movie made according to the rules? authorial conundrums resembles a healthy breath of fresh air), and in any case the tests of Viard and Gadebois are of what is said in France impeccable (flawless) and for the time of a movie made you believe that the beautiful fairy tales they still exist.
October 30, 2022 (change October 30, 2022 | 20:41)
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