Did you know that girls smell like honey? I can't even imagine why this masterpiece of French cinema passed by the audience. As if the most expensive and beautiful fireworks were set off during a thick, impenetrable fog. I was lucky to soar and enjoy the amazing film “Manon Lescaux, or the story of the Cavalier de Grieux”.
At the disposal of the director, Gabriel Agion, there was an amazing and very tragic story, written in the XVIII century by Abbot Prevo, about the endless, not recognizing any obstacles in its path, the all-consuming love of the hereditary nobleman de Grieux to the simple girl Manon Lescaux, whose beauty, charm and irresistible magnetism, in one second shattered everything that the holy church had cultivated in a young man for years. One look was enough to go against family, society, morality, and even the law, for it is nothing compared to her. Manon, despite a certain windiness attributed to her, fully appreciated the action of the cavalier, giving him her heart forever.
The acting is perfect, it’s just perfect. In this film there is no room for playfulness and falsehood, everything is real. Celine Perrault played the role of Manon Lescaux. She managed to play a libertine, looking at whom, at everything she did, wanted to fall at her feet and kiss the hem of the dress, recognizing the undoubted superiority. Samuel Tace is surprisingly organic as Cavalier de Grieux. He appeared before the viewer who made his choice young men, ready to do anything in the name of his chosen one, in the name of Manon. Xavier Galle, who played Christian, a very dedicated and dedicated character, is beyond praise. He's great.
François Staal, composer, put his soul into the musical accompaniment, amplifying every moment in such a way that it will be simply impossible to forget it.
Watching movies like this gets better. All cynicism, pragmatism and indifference are gone. And how can it be otherwise, when real feelings are revealed before your eyes, without any tinsel? We're better than we think, and that's great.
10 out of 10