Review by Beatrice On 30-Aug-2024
Love is giving what you don't have to someone who doesn't want it
Joan is no longer in love and decides to leave her husband, who gets drunk and dies in a car accident.
Alice has a beautiful relationship with her partner, from whom she feels loved, and although she doesn't feel a strong attraction, she believes that a marriage of tenderness is more reassuring and convenient than passion, which is, after all, exhausting and stressful.
Rebecca, on the other hand, is always seeking adventure and is hiding a secret relationship.
A film of romantic entanglements, built on a relentlessly structured, complex, and sophisticated screenplay: seemingly light, yet a metaphor for the fleeting nature of contemporary feelings.
Extraordinary performances accompany the journey of friendship, complicity, betrayal, search, passion, feelings, sincerity: a fortuitous complexity of factors that find fertile ground in individuals who struggle to become adults.
“I feel tenderness for those characters who want to be better than they are,” explains the director, “but don't really succeed. Never really, except sometimes. I feel tenderness for that cruel but constructive clumsiness that is part of our human condition, being overwhelmed by stories, ideals, and desires as much as by strokes of luck and the dangers of reality.”
Three women embody three different types of love: passionate, calculated, adolescent, where, however—and this is true especially for men—what always wins is the love that escapes, distances itself, takes time and space, dedicates itself to something else... a classic story told with light dramatization and playful resignation.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence
30-Aug-2024 by Beatrice