A man in his sixties is thrown out by his bored wife. He sells their house in Biarritz (shame!!) to pay a company (run by his son, I think) to virtually recreate (with a cast of hundreds) their 1974 meeting 'Truman Show' style - but falls in love with the actress playing his then wife. Or does he really?
Complicated by the fact that the virtual director (worst performance) and the actress in question (best performance) are an item, possibly. He could have saved the money and had a shave. Some witty angles on directorship, the great performance of Doria Tillier (as Margot, the actress in question) and subtle callbacks to 1974 just about save it from being a total bore.
Fast-moving to start with, LBE fizzles out big time since the conceit of the virtual-reality company is enjoyable, but utterly contrived, and unnecessarily complicated. It's a smother job for a long-marriage breakup and reconciliation story.
You start off thinking it's subversive, but ultimately it's very, very sentimental and big-time bourgeois. Market pressure, I guess. 5/10: a lot to skim over. Better than most contemporary Hollywood product, it has to be said.
Complicated by the fact that the virtual director (worst performance) and the actress in question (best performance) are an item, possibly. He could have saved the money and had a shave. Some witty angles on directorship, the great performance of Doria Tillier (as Margot, the actress in question) and subtle callbacks to 1974 just about save it from being a total bore.
Fast-moving to start with, LBE fizzles out big time since the conceit of the virtual-reality company is enjoyable, but utterly contrived, and unnecessarily complicated. It's a smother job for a long-marriage breakup and reconciliation story.
You start off thinking it's subversive, but ultimately it's very, very sentimental and big-time bourgeois. Market pressure, I guess. 5/10: a lot to skim over. Better than most contemporary Hollywood product, it has to be said.