Having recently watched Nicolas Bedos’ film “Beautiful Epoch”, I decided to watch the film with which he began his directorial career – “He and She” / Mr & Mme Adelman, 2016. I read that he had been hatching the idea for the film for many years, until he was finally able to bring his idea to life. At the funeral of the famous writer
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Having recently watched Nicolas Bedos’ film “Beautiful Epoch”, I decided to watch the film with which he began his directorial career – “He and She” / Mr & Mme Adelman, 2016. I read that he had been hatching the idea for the film for many years, until he was finally able to bring his idea to life. At the funeral of the famous writer Victor Adelman comes a journalist writing his biography – his wife Sarah appointed him a meeting for this day. And while all the guests commemorate the writer, his wife tells the story of their lives to this journalist. It would seem that a rather cynical act and the beginning of their conversation looks rather rude and, it seems, even a little stunned this journalist. But then there are the metamorphoses with which this whole story is so rich, and we witness a rather contradictory story of love and life, we see it in Sarah’s interpretation, and the words and the image often do not quite coincide, since before Sarah’s inner gaze the pictures appear exactly in the form in which the story occurred. A young woman, Sarah Adelman, studying the history of literature, accidentally meets a novice writer Victor in a bar and immediately falls in love with him, being drunk, Victor is not very imbued with Sarah, but then her struggle for him begins, in which a purposeful girl finally wins, and then love begins - at least, so she remembered this period of their lives. However, life turns out to be, like many people, not the same as it was seen in dreams, everything turns out to be much more complicated. Strong Sarah subordinates her life to the affairs of Victor - he advances and prospers, she slowly recedes into the background. Sarah leaves him after some of his strange acts (not the first in all their string), they live apart for several years until he makes another (and successful) attempt to get her back. And then, after several years of living together, his extinction begins, he still trembles, falling in love with a young girl, but alas, Alzheimer takes his own. And whether Sarah had a hand in his death, remains in question, although some doubt creeps in, as there is almost no doubt that even to his work she put a hand more than once. I liked the film, although you can dig up script blunders, but I will not do this, because people’s lives are sometimes far from a smooth rolled-up track and their actions are often illogical and contradictory. The duet of the main characters is beautiful – Nicolas Bedos himself and his wife (and co-writer of the script) Doria Thillier.
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