One of those tiny, discreet, very French films, where if someone works it is because he is a professor of philosophy, and the faculty is one of those places where personalities develop, you learn a lot, but you never see no student studying.
This late product of the nouvelle vague is like watching an Eric Rohmer moral tale shot by a Jean Eustache who had decided to do more traditional movies.
The story could be called "The daughter and the whore", it is even shot in black and white and basically in Parisian apartments and cafes.
A father lives with his new love, one of his students, and with his daughter who returns home after an unfortunate relationship. It is not easy to know what the moral is, but everything seems to revolve around fidelity.
In the end, the characters are more conventional than they want to appear at the beginning of the film, and the relationships that work are shown to be the more traditional.
Or not, because in the end you cannot be sure that once the film is finished, in a few weeks the tables won't be turned, after all you do not get to know the characters very much.
Anyway it sounds quite real most of the time. It's interesting, a nice picture, with a good casting, with a somewhat jumpy rythm. But the lasting impression is that it lacks scope and ambition.
This late product of the nouvelle vague is like watching an Eric Rohmer moral tale shot by a Jean Eustache who had decided to do more traditional movies.
The story could be called "The daughter and the whore", it is even shot in black and white and basically in Parisian apartments and cafes.
A father lives with his new love, one of his students, and with his daughter who returns home after an unfortunate relationship. It is not easy to know what the moral is, but everything seems to revolve around fidelity.
In the end, the characters are more conventional than they want to appear at the beginning of the film, and the relationships that work are shown to be the more traditional.
Or not, because in the end you cannot be sure that once the film is finished, in a few weeks the tables won't be turned, after all you do not get to know the characters very much.
Anyway it sounds quite real most of the time. It's interesting, a nice picture, with a good casting, with a somewhat jumpy rythm. But the lasting impression is that it lacks scope and ambition.