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The story centres on the female lead, who had survived the Second World War in Drancy, France. Played by Susan Sarandon, she is now trapped in a marriage with a former history professor who has had numerous affairs and who wants her war experiences and her mental imbalances to be forgotten. They live in the pastoral, English-speaking, Eastern Townships of Quebec, symbolically and cinematically a great setting for the movie. All the other characters, male, reflect the various aspects of her adult dilemma with how to emotionally balance her past. This psychological drama is based upon the arrival of Jakob, the man who helped her survive and her childhood alter-ego, Christopher. Their re-entry into her adult world, is more about her internal life than any events that take place in the story. Seeing this movie will send me to the novel to figure out a number of key details.
7/10
3.5.2008 -
rkg@
I was so excited to see this movie. What a cast!! I found the story a bit lacking. The ending was to rushed. It's really unfortunate as this cast deserved much more attention and a much better story. Probably a great rental.
6/10
29.4.2008 -
rick_raymond@ - age: 36-49
Susan Sarandon is radiant as a sensitive woman with a troubled past and the 5 men who love her (husband, son, grandson and two friends from the past.) The film takes place in the stunning Eastern Township in the fall. Melanie, as a child, was deported to Drancy, a transit camp in France where most inmates were then sent to Auschwitz. Through the self-sacrifice of one man, she and another child are saved. The film is about the reunion of these three people and Melanie's life today.
9/10
28.4.2008 -
viacondotti8@ - age: 36-49
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This is a thoughtful intelligent film which stays with you afterwards and keeps you thinking. The acting is excellent and the chemistry between the characters is strong and believable. The film has the immediacy of good theatre- in fact it would make an excellent play. It is character driven in fact, and those who are in the mood for a fast moving adventure film should leave this for another time.
9/10
27.4.2008 -
gottheim@ - age: 50+
Great cast, they did just as much with their facial expressions as they did with the dialogue. Believable, and insightful characters.
7/10
18.4.2008 -
yrome1@ - age: 36-49
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