‘But one can’t demystify
feelings.’
There are films which can’t get
over easily once you finished, it strips your emotions and sensibilities to inner
truth without manipulation and create deep vibrations. I ended up watching one
of the most beautiful and touching love story ever made. It echoes the
universal sentiment in so sublime and sophisticated tone and at the same time
captures the puzzling internal human nature of its characters.
This is my fifth Sautet film and
without a doubt one of the most enriching experience. Though came as late
flowering, it is surely his one of the best accomplishment as an artist. Unlike
his earlier romantic triangle ‘Cesar et Rosalie’, this is more intense and
serious in nature. Maxime is a middle aged man and a reputed violin shop owner is
in relationship with young, beautiful and talented violinist Camille. Though various
chance encounters somehow she attracts towards Maxime’s friend and partner
Stephane who repairs violins in his shop. Now this sets a complex tug of
attraction between two. Compared to open and frank Camille, the character of
Stephane is reticent, aloof who likes to curb his emotions with fixed pride and
detachment. From years he has built this closed world inside him and here he’s
facing the woman who came as challenge to that self afflicted barrier. What we
witness is touching secret affinity with the lives of three opaque characters.
Sautet wonderfully plays with the slow disintegration of relationship between
the trio without losing a balance.
Though each characters played
their parts so sophisticatedly, the poetry of the film is Emmanuelle Beart who
plays Camille and she’s another addition to the list of French actresses I just
love for their grace and talent. The melodious notes of violin in chamber music
reverberates the internal emotional vibrations the characters passing through
and that encompassing us too as an audience.
What a lovely film!
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