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Isabelle Huppert,
Isabelle Huppert,
Pascal Greggory,
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Olivier Dahan,
Olivier Dahan
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: Empire Pictures
: Drama, Foreign, France
: 94 min.
: French
: English
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Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert) is a 40-year-old prostitute who works on the streets in Nice. Her teenage daughter Laurence (Maud Forget), whom she had abandoned years before, visits her apartment unexpectedly while Sylvia is being beaten by two thugs. One of the thugs is killed in the resulting melee, and the two women flee to the French countryside. Sylvia tries to find her ex-husband with whom she had a son, and her daughter tries to connect with her despite Sylvia's reluctance. They meet the mysterious fugitive Joshua (Pascal Greggory) who joins them. Meanwhile, Sylvia confronts her troubled past and tries to make sense of her life. ~ Todd Kristel, All Movie Guide
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by talltale
January 30, 2005 - 6:34 AM PST
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3 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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| LA VIE PROMISE is a strange little movie. Never uninteresting and always lovely to look at (flowers galore, sunsets and great shots of the French countryside), it tracks the road trip of a hooker, her estranged daughter and the pleasant criminal who picks them up. They form an odd family, these three, and that, I suppose, is one of the points that Olivier Dahan, director and co-writer with Agnes Fustier Dahan (his wife?) is trying to make. Others themes include how memory haunts us and how we pay for past mistakes. The movie is grounded (in the sense of not being allowed to float away on sentimentality) by the performance of Isabelle Huppert. This actress just gets better and better (and, if this film is any indication, more beautiful than when she was young). Huppert makes everything real, even when you know it's not. She is helped, too, by Maud Forget as her daughter and Pascal Greggory as the fellow who picks up the pair. There is one terrifically moving scene, as Huppert's character reunites with the child she has not seen in years. While there are far too many flowers for the film's own good, if you're a Huppert fan, don't miss this. |
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