Directed by:
Pascale FerranCinematography:
Julien HirschComposer:
Béatrice ThirietCast:
Josh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier, Roschdy Zem, Taklyt Vongdara, Geoffrey Cantor, Camélia Jordana, Radha Mitchell, Aurore Soudieux, Guillaume Bréaud (more)VOD (1)
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In an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer (Josh Charles) abruptly chucks his job, breaks things off with his wife, and holes up in his room. As fate draws him and a young French maid (Anais Demoustier) together, an audacious second-act surprise suddenly transforms César Award-winning director Pascale Ferran's (Lady Chatterley) dark-tinged fairy-tale into something altogether richer, more beguiling, and utterly astonishing. (Sundance Selects)
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Existentialism in pure avian form. At the beginning, we witness a series of ordinary human lives that involve mainly ever-present destruction, which they don’t want to admit in front of others. Then a cleaning lady is reincarnated as a bird and she gets to watch how these people behave when they are alone. It’s clear what they meant by that, but I wouldn’t need to watch a movie like this again. Nevertheless, the shots are interesting and I will be happy to appreciate Anaïs Demoustier in another movie.
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I think a lot more could have been made out of this film. The premise isn't bad at all - two people's lives completely change within a short period of time. But unfortunately, the whole time I felt that it was incredibly drawn out and that I wanted to scream at the characters to do something, to do anything other than what they were doing. I was physically bored.
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