corentindhoop Reviews

Oui, mais... (2001)

an excellent overview of the way short therapies help us to reconsider reality

[10/10 · 20 September 2014]

The film evokes the short therapies with a lot of realism and truth, even in 140 minutes - what can be considered as a very difficult exercise. There is not, like in many French or American films, "miserabilism" or "sensationalism". The adventure of Laura can be said authentic. I may say I have an excellent knowledge of psycho- analysis (for having been passionate about the theories of Freud and Lacan for many years) and transactional analysis (for having attended training courses, formations and reading books). I would not cut any phrase from this movie.

The film analyzes the structures giving birth to personality, following the pattern of the "triangle dramatique", and "sticking together" thanks to culpability. The parallelism between mother and child is very effective: at the end, the mother happens to begin her analysis by the same denial complex as her own child - "I am not the one that should be cured, but ..."

Pas son genre (2014)

A promising film

[6/10 · 2 September 2014]

Very good film with excellent actors. However, some scenes deserved to be more developed. Why do we know so little about the books Clement wrote, and about his new book "Le nouvel Eros" ? Why is it we cannot throw a connection between the way Clement reflects on love in his own life and the way he theorizes it in his books?

Also, the main characters of the film remain unaltered. We don't see Clement evolve from his lack of emotional response and skepticism. We don't see how Jenifer tried to cope her sense of romanticism and ideal with the profile of Clement. We only know Jenifer went away abruptly. No final explanation, no interrelations between universes that keep on moving the same line straight until the end.