Finding Yourself, Truth and Money in Paris at Night Autumn has finally come into its own. Outside the window, of course, it is beautiful, against the background of a gray-black sky, yellow-golden poplars and birches, with green pine trees and fir trees standing between them, fallen leaves on the ground, abundantly drenched in rain, which does not stop for the third day. And so overcast, wet and drenched that you absolutely do not want to leave the house (good for nowhere and not necessary). And I want to sit on the couch with my legs in my legs, cover myself with a warm blanket, pour a cup of fragrant Indian tea, take a plate of chocolate cake (which I baked yesterday), and immerse myself in watching a good, warm French film, which was done.
Sweet and charming Audrey Totu helped brighten up the boring, cold, gray autumn evening. We chose this film, continuing to move on the filmography of Audrey Toth, and continuing the tradition of watching French cinema on weekends. It's certainly not the best film I've ever seen in a French movie, but it's very cute and in French it's graceful light. The film takes place during one night, for which the main character needs to find money to save his theater, and ends with a beautiful warm morning, and sun-drenched Paris.
I would describe the content of the film as follows: "... and when it seems that nothing will get worse, suddenly the dark stripe becomes light, the main thing is to believe in yourself and your friends. ..". In the best traditions of French comedies. A runaway monkey, an elderly womanizer who is very well able to find problems in one place. Easy, positive cinema for red wine with cheese, or tea with cake, and not for fans of intellectual subjects. The film is very confused and even ridiculous, but not absurd. So ironically stupid, unstressed, as if consisting of disparate plots, somehow miraculously united into one story. Strange music in the style of Kusturica - sometimes sounding so out of place, an endless sea of unjustified fuss, a poor monkey and a baby, and deliberate lyrical and dramatic approaches - to increase the level of humor and romance. Nice nonsense.
And although we watched it as a film with the participation of Audrey Toth, but in fact in the film she is on the second, if not third, plane. Although her character is always the brightest and most unforgettable. The whole film is a performance by Edward Baer. Actually, the script belongs to the authorship of Baer, so the movie turned out to be personal in every sense. All the audience’s attention belongs to the main character – Luigi, who turns out to be a professional talker, a pathological liar and an unexpectedly charming seducer (though not very successful). His hero then repels, then attracts his contradictory actions, in which good borders on stupidity (or vice versa). But the actor couldn’t pull the whole movie on his own. Whether the ability is small, or the character is so poorly written. His hero does not cause the slightest sympathy, not the slightest sympathy. Theatre director, loser and sloppy, loser and adventurer. The whole company loves him and loves him. Throughout the film, he wanders haphazardly through Paris at night, walks back and forth, drinks, dances, steals a monkey, then climbs after another monkey to the zoo. His theater hangs by a thread, on the verge of closing for debts, he has not paid the troupe a salary for 2 months, and if the upcoming performance in the morning does not become a hit and does not collect a full hall, then the theater will be finished. Well, that's all.
Overall, the film is mediocre. And the fun here soon becomes sad, because the film was not about saving the theater, but about the destruction of families, which, in fact, become the main theme of the film. A lot is said about loved ones, forgotten, abandoned and unwanted loved ones, but no one really sees them, they remain in context. And this exposes the senseless, unnecessary sacrifice of all employees in the name of the theater and its director, but the strangest thing is not art.
This film is better to watch with a glass of wine and without high expectations, a wet autumn evening, in order to relax without straining your brains, and then it will be able to shake you up and even entertain you, rolling at breakneck speed through the city of love, whoever it is - to the monkey, the theater or crazy comedies. It seems boring and even boring in places, BUT. The film stands out with magnificent views of evening, night and morning Paris, pleasant music and beautiful play by Audrey Thoth.
7 out of 10