I decided to watch this when a friend forced me to watch the first scene of the movie last week and at the end of it, I was smiling and smiling and smiling. Its really the story of Max, an I-care-a-damn-about-ethics-as-long-as-I-make-money kinda stock trader from London who travels to France to sell off his inheritance from his dead Uncle Henry. What follows is interesting drama - connection with country life, brush with the past, falling in love and basically, 'living' really.
The setting is stupendous - French music, awesome sets, francaise (yey!!) including the accent (ac-saun :)), gripping background score, the acting super real - Russel Crowe, Albert Finney!!
For me, the movie was about the world outside of 'work', a world that I feel is the only real - where you see, touch and feel the fine lines of life....and yes, all that french :). I particularly loved the climax oozing with romance, and I quote,what in my mind is, the line of the movie:
"Pardonne mes lèvres. Elles trouvent la joie dans les endrois les plus inhabituels"
....like us and life - finding pleasure in unusual places, sometimes unknown, sometimes without wanting to know:
Far
like open spaces in the whites of the eye balls
often intercepted by
blinks
of the protecting eyelids
that seem beautiful with eyes closed,
my mind yearns for bad eye sight,
in my irrational, distance-less, short-sighted
vision
or the lack of it! :)
PS - Its raining here as I write this...tres bien!
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