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    Le Week-End

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    A seemingly simple and bare boned film becomes pretty much a revelation as we start our journey. An English Academic couple decides to celebrate a milestone in their Paris of 30 years ago. Don't expect this to be about Paris or its beauty. Its concentrations lie elsewhere. The film is so genuine as we step into the lives of an almost retired couple (Meg and Nick) who have ups and many downs since their arrival in Paris, obviously stemming from a life marriage together. The effortless performances of Broadbent and Duncan show them as human in every way: they're aging; they have regrets, anger, a rather prickly attitude of the wife, a slightly skin-flint of a husband, but still there is a basic affection. Everything is so open that we feel part of their weekend holiday. A meeting of Broadbent's College chum (Jeff Goldblum) transform matters somewhat. It's all so accurate we forget we are watching a film. If not a complete documentation of life, Le Weekend raises ideas of reality programming which does not mean I denigrate the film in any way. It's a very personal and intimate look at what happens in the course of life from day to day. From the writer and director of VENUS with the late Peter 0'Toole.

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    pietroantoni@  3.12.2014 age: 36-49 14,540 reviews

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