Juniper? Again? When we fall in love, we hear the music of Puccini. We all want to fall in love. In love, we are so perfectly alive. Reality recedes, we ascend to heaven. Maybe just for a second, an hour, but it doesn't really matter. The memory of this moment is with us for life.
I read "Lovers hear Puccini" recently. His music is our need for love. We listen to La Bohemian or read Wuthering Heights or watch Casablanca and something of their love lives on in us. After all, the question is, why do we fall in love despite all the pain and transience of this feeling?
- The Instinct of Reproduction?
- We need to connect with someone.
- Is it culturally determined?
- Too intellectual. Because as many of you already know... As long as it’s there, you feel great. . .
The Mirror Has Two Faces, 1996 B. Streisand
A woman of “elderly years” falls into the arms of “l’amour”. Yes, yes, that French LYAMUR turns his head, intoxicates, drives mad, and so invigorates, refreshes, with the music of Puccini filling the decrepit body. Are love all ages submissive? Is love blind? Why not? Give in to the feeling! Open your heart to the song! Wake up! Wake up from your sleep. Take a nap off the chela... But the age is already ... oh-oh. In these years, you're completely ... not wow. Far away -- not ooh. Symptoms of health are such that exactly where and when exactly a trick in ridicule will suit the body - to the obvious, to the pain. Love? Soar? Float? As long as you can. . .
Far from being a young starlet, the seventieth-year-old who stepped over madame, Sean (Fanny Ardan), to Pierre (Melville Poupot) "falls down." Or he's on her - which is more prosaic, comical, sad... He's not even fifty yet "an hour has struck," and here's this. I don’t even know which epithets to choose to fully and correctly describe the situation. Grandma? Oh, grandma. However, this is the same Karin Tardieu - a female director is busy. Is it necessary to create an intrigue for the audience? And the sad sadness of the "leaving train" to convey in the cap of the sensual world of these two without joking how? Puzzle. But... Let's try! Shaw! Kroim! Isn't Fanny Ardan the iconic megastar? I have to! I have to.
And the movie worked. The movie did. Light. No tears. Well, almost. Drama? Yeah. As it is, drama. But sadness comes and tears remain.
A typical French story before us. Love, betrayal, jealousy, pain of some, sweetness of others. Here, children and even grandchildren are intertwined, weaved into the canvas. Amur, flying from the branches, strikes through the arrow. And the prankster makes fun of it, and squirms between these two, nesting for a while. How much of that time do they have? How much do they have? One brief affair? A page essay? A story? For two hours in the timing of the screen sound.
Juniper (2021) with Charlotte Rampling echoes the current Young Lovers (2021). That "grandmother" was just talking about a possible meeting with another prince. This one turned the “fad” into reality. What can I say? This hemisphere of the Earth and the other are certainly not the same thing. And although the stories - New Zealand and French have little similarity in features, both are like two drops of water - the "sisters" are amazing. And also love of life. And breathing in peace. And the desire to be. Enjoy, admire, feel, feel beauty. . .
7 out of 10