The sunny days: a passionate love story between Fanny Ardant and Laurent Lafitte
The actress is in the spotlight on this Wednesday evening, on Arte.
In 2013 released the film in the cinema The beautiful days. A dramatic comedy carried by the trio of actors Fanny Ardant,, Laurent Lafitte And Patrick Chesnais. She returns to Arte, followed by a portrait of the actress entitled Fanny Ardant: Birth of a passion. A double program To find free of charge in replay.
History? Caroline, a dentist, retires. Fearing to see her get bored, her children offer her a club subscription “Beautiful days”where people meet their age for lessons and workshops meet. First doubtful, she ends up going there with pleasure, and had a good meeting there. She sympathizes with Julien, who gives him computer lessons. The young man soon became his lover. By her side, she finds a spontaneous joie de vivre. But Caroline still loves her husband, Philippe. He wasted no time in discovering that his wife has an affair with a younger man. Should she make a choice? …
In this film, Marion Vernoux opts for the melodrama breeze and the lighting of comedy. Caroline (Fanny Ardant), who is in the midst of sixties and who cracks for Julien (Laurent Lafitte), attractive computer teacher barely quadra. “”The filmmaker, however, has the intelligence not to reduce the latter to a simple cougar fetishist “appreciated the criticism of First at the time.
Here it is: Dunkirk, its gray port and its low sky merge with the North Sea. The weather seems to announce a cloudy chronicle with a pale complexion, but Marion Vernoux opts for the melodrama breeze and the clarifieds of the comedy. Caroline (Fanny Ardant), who is in the midst of sixties, wonders what to do with her “Fine days”. Pottery, like other members of the retirement club? Rather die. Refusing to be confined in this role of granny a little early cake, she prefers to be carried by an improbable flirt with Julien (Laurent Lafitte), attractive computer teacher barely quadra. The filmmaker, however, has the intelligence not to reduce the latter to a simple fetishist from the cougar – Julien’s sparkling eye also lights up before women of his age – and not to lock himself in a thought “Sociopsychologizing” On intergenerational relations at the time of the extension of life expectancy. If these themes and stereotypes are underlying, the director of nothing to make the short-circuits with a tenderness and a saving humor, leaving each character a chance of emancipation. In contact with Hurricane Fanny Ardant, irresistible blonde with cowboy shirt, the virile masks of the fringents Laurent Lafitte and Pierre Chesnais (both excellent) crack. Large of all the affeery, the staging of Marion Vernoux records this revival of passion with a contagious vitality.
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