I reread David Borowski’s “Runaway Space” and come face to face with “The Face of Love.” These “gifts” are called coincidences. Or by conduct in our ordinary understanding. Rationally inexplicable. Synchronicity, C. G. Jung would say. God’s providence – the spiritual pastor will notice significantly. Don't know, don't know. But, such things cultivate and educate a person in us.
LE CINEMA
He and she were married for nine years. He died two years ago. She could not get used to loneliness. At the end of the day I was in no hurry. The weekend was flour. Life is empty.
One morning I met a neighbor on the floor. We were late together. I saw your husband yesterday.
How was yesterday? She stopped.
"In a film magazine. I guess I accidentally got into the picture.
She slammed the front door.
She took off from her job. The tram quickly drove her to the cinema "Zenit".
She used to be here with him a lot. I watched all the Italian movies. It took a long time before the session began. Lights out. Film magazine major music. The voice of the announcer. Chronicle footage. The heart is about to pop out...
A black gray mass of pedestrians moved far along the sidewalk. Suddenly one of the crowd sharply separated and began diagonally crossing the roadway. Went straight to the camera lens.
It was HE.
What the announcer said, she didn't hear. He got closer and closer until he closed the screen. And she closed her eyes.
He walked straight towards her, in his light jacket. I wonder when that was?
At the next session, she did not watch the film. I went outside after the magazine. The day was fading. The edges of the sidewalk are outlined by the following poplar snow. There was one more session left. Last one.
The night didn't sleep. It turned out so well. So clear. So clear. Why did he decide to cross the street in the wrong place? Maybe I saw her...
The next day after work, she returned to the cinema. I was in a hurry all week.
That the film is different, she did not pay attention. The movie magazine changed. She's lost. I ran out in the lobby. The bartender found out where the hardware was. The zinc-covered door is locked. The voices of the artists and the music were heard. The old mechanic said, “What are you?”
“Yesterday ... and the day before yesterday ... my husband ... in a movie magazine ... my husband by accident ... he died.” He died two years ago. You got him alive! He's crossing the street... You know... Goes straight to me... Alive! Give it back. I... I will... I'll pay you what you say. No one will notice. He's nobody.
She cried.
The mechanic looked at round tin boxes, similar to large canned goods. I don't think the magazine was taken away.
“Come tomorrow. Think about it. It's better this time.
She ran home with a ring of black celluloid film and stared at the lamp all evening, afraid to damage the tape. Hands didn't listen. She had no idea what to do next. On the screen he is alive, and the tape ... many, many photos ...
I remember that in the house opposite lives a forgotten silent film artist. He was talking about it.
Overcoming embarrassment and shame, she pressed the ringing button of someone else’s door.
She left in an hour. Her eyes glowed like Hermann, who had learned the secret of the three cards. Without delay, rushed to the film studio. And she traveled many more times until she got it.
I had to sell something from home. A piece of tape was printed, repeating the image, in several places “slowing down” the movement, transferred to an eight-millimeter amateur format. She was happy. I had to buy a projector.
Now she and her colleagues are in a hurry home. Right on the wall, above the bed (the carpet had to be removed), he crosses the street. He's coming to her. Returns to the crowd and again stubbornly heads towards it.
She didn’t know that the Lumière brothers’ first film that surprised the world was called The Arrival of the Train.
As a passenger of this train that arrived a hundred years ago, he returned to his home and her life changed.
As he walks on the wall, she cooks dinner. How good he was to cross the street. Break the rules... I didn’t want to walk in the crowd.
She tells him how the day went.
And someday... someday... She believes...
He will come down from the wall and sit next to him. Like then...
Death. It always comes suddenly and without demand. Comes for the most beloved and dear. Takes without recoil, forever.
Pain is a younger sister and eternal companion, plunging into painful suffering.
Time is a peacemaker, a healer of decayed ashes.
Life is a fast-legged horse enthusiastically carrying its rider.
All these characters are skillfully woven into a harmonious history. And an hour and a half to realize what it's like to experience death and pain? And an hour and a half to understand that time and life give a new impetus to existence. And the quirks of the universe are such that you again meet “your” person and his portrait shakes you with “authenticity”. Should we talk more and avoid revealing the director’s plan? Nope. Don't be. We have Annette Bening and Ed Harris in all the brilliance of acting. A good movie for family viewing.
It is nice that Ed Harris appears before the audience as a master painter - as if conveying his greetings to himself "yesterday" - Pollock (2000) and to all of us too. Enjoyment.
What makes this film so attractive? First of all, the story is very unusual, and it's really intriguing. Secondly, the wonderful acting that gives life to this film and makes it so enjoyable and warm. Well, and thirdly, here is a love story, a story of strong love, and personally I especially like such pictures.
We see the story of a woman who lost the man of her life. He died, and after his departure, the entire life of the heroine changed. It was gray and cold. But fate decided to play an incredible joke with her, and the woman met a man who looks stunningly similar to her late husband. The heroine could not but get acquainted with him and not begin to communicate. She was attracted to him, and it was stronger than her.
I appreciated this little-known movie. There is something special and attractive about him that I liked. The power of feelings and emotions was well performed by the main actors. It felt good when watching. You always put yourself in the place of heroes, and you think: what would she do? Cinema is curious, like a fascinating love novel, full of a storm of human passions.
It even felt like Shakespeare. Love, death, fate, intrigue, deception, vicissitudes of fate. In any case, the plot is interesting, and the viewer cannot predict the end. Although I was a bit disappointed with the ending, I wanted a different outcome. But maybe here and it was necessary to do everything as it would be in real life.
Annette Bening and Ed Harris are two respected, American actors. To be honest, they're both always good at love stories, the genre of melodrama. Both play clean and it's always nice to watch them play. If Harris was the face in this picture, then Bening is definitely the soul and heart. Notice how she revealed her character. I loved her character.
This film is about love, about the incredible fate that so often plays with us, throws up trials and incomprehensible circumstances, a story about us and the desire for monogamous love once and for life, and about a strong, true love that will sweep away everything in its path. And that's beautiful.
"The Face of Love" is a 2013 American melodrama directed by Arie Pozin (who is famous for his unusual film Chamscrabber). Cinema is curious and ideal for those who truly appreciate and love true love stories.
Thank you for your attention and pleasant viewing!
Why are you looking at me like that?
- Your face...
How many thoughts swarm in your head after watching this picture, anger, sadness and sympathy prevail. Sympathy to all those who were also used, those who loved so sincerely, and were openly deceived. I sympathize with the hero Tom (Ed Harris), a man who did not suspect what bait can get caught, fell in love with the heroine Anne (Annette Baning), he is sincere, bright, and his not verboseness and simplicity causes sympathy, for him this love turned into a great disappointment, and the question remained in his head, or maybe everything would be different for Tom, without meeting him, he is Anne?! She broke his heart literally.
Anne, the woman who caused me so much inconvenience for her actions, so much outrage that I, without wasting time, sat down to print a review, splash out emotions from the film.
Anne is an older woman, at the very beginning gives the impression of smart, wise, mature, but all this is false, then she appears weak, selfish, strange, infantile and etc. epithets can be attributed to the main character. The scene where she says to her daughter - get out of the house, in general I was outraged what it was!? But all the same, there is something in such women-girls, because so she quickly hooked Tom, and the neighbor has long been in love with her.
The film itself is not afraid of this word beautiful, the music is not obtrusive but subtly emphasizes all the special scenes of the film. The script is a world of dreams, the ocean, a beautiful house, painting, a museum, the voices of translators, radiant eyes and a smile of the heroine, textured Ed Harris, and the voices of the actors are beautiful, unfortunately, did not find their names.
When the mood is a little sad, when you want to philosophize about life and relationships, watch this film - about love and selfishness.
9 out of 10 because the finale of the film made me sad.9 It was aftertaste.
9 out of 10
People want to believe that they will never grow old. Men think that in 60 will be more wow-go: to twist romances with young students, easily swim in the raging ocean, incendiary dance, paint pictures, dissect on a jeep, smoke grass and with the same grace to wear a tuxedo with a butterfly, broken jeans and cowboy hats. Women believe that at 60 they will have a maiden figure, a beautiful house, an interesting job, and most importantly - the only loved and loving man for life, giving a chic necklace for the thirtieth anniversary of the wedding. And even if something suddenly happens to this man (yes, it’s probably age after all), then fate, having experienced a little sadness of loneliness, will put her as a bonus for humility absolutely the same. Do you believe that happens? In real life, maybe not, but can you dream?
Beautiful and elegant Annette Bening, who has lost her nose to age, and “Mr. Second Plan” with piercing blue eyes on a baked face, Ed Harris, play love against the backdrop of spreading palm trees under the hot California sun. The red riot of the Indian summer and the rising waves of the Pacific Ocean give an additional flavor to this action. However, a beautiful picture remains just a picture. Waiting for an idea takes minutes. The conflict is sluggish, but there is not enough heat to make the viewer believe what is happening on the screen. A woman who has lost her husband and is trying to find his features in another man, despite all the efforts of Annette Bening, looks frozen, unable to show lively feelings for either her husband or her lover. The character of Ed Harris is like an old playboy who seems to be in a state of flirtation all the time - a playful smile does not come off his face. And if suddenly sadness touches his chela, he looks like a beaten spaniel, catching the eye of the owner. This duet, diluted by Robin Williams in his usual role as a kind and hysterical daughter of the heroine, can brighten up an hour and a half of time. Or maybe not.
In cinema today fashion on the theme of gerontology. But it is unlikely that the influence of fashion alone forced the director of the film Arye Pozin to take up its development. Aryeh says that as a child, his father forbade him to watch TV: “There is normal food, and there is garbage,” he grumbled. I don’t want you to grow up seeing these dirty pictures. The child, apparently, had no choice but to plunge into the world of dreams. When, as an adult, Pozin began writing scripts, and then directing, his father’s “school of life” was clearly to his advantage: he already knew what people like – the fictional world is always better, cleaner and more interesting than vile reality. Take and adapt the eternal female dream of a prince on a white horse under the category of "seigneurs" - why not? Do you think people at this age no longer believe in fairy tales? They do. A dream salesman is a profitable business. And Posin was very successful at it. But we must give him credit - the product he offers on the market, maybe a little artificial, but beautiful, that's for sure.
5 out of 10
It’s hard to express my feelings about the film. To do this, you need to find those soul strings on which Arye Pozin plays. These strings: perfect love, dissolution in the other half, service to memory, which is actually a sharp form of selfishness. I do not accept such postulates, I look at the feelings of the main character as exotic, which I would not like to experience.
There are no perfect marriages, just like perfect men. Such a memory of the husband is more connected with the realization, after his absurd death, of a higher degree of love, more invented than it actually was. Nothing but the instinct of self-preservation and protection from loneliness, or rather its filling with dreams - this is how I see the development of the plot. I may be wrong, but!
It is godless, so cruel to treat a man: to experience on him the selfish continuation of the worship of her husband, to call him by his name, to take him to places where she used to rest with her husband, so what? Adoration of the Magi... satisfaction of the ego:
Do not dare to die, since I love and worship, and did not have time to hide, who looks like a husband - I am not guilty.
We don’t really know what the film is about, everyone puts their experience into the feelings of the characters. I feel sorry for the man who, in a short time, showed us almost perfection in behavior and adequate feelings in a difficult situation, applying the maximum understanding, patience and sensitive brevity.
The more prosperous life, the poorer she is spiritually and there is nothing easier: to model the continuation of a relationship with a man like a husband in your interests. I was convinced of this by the main character triumphing in the last scene in the pool. I think I almost hated it.
Becoming different, not carrying a backpack of old habits, building a new life without lies and understanding a man who wants to be around - this is what the film teaches us and that one should never give up - life can present surprises and accept them with dignity is not given to everyone.