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(More customer reviews)A relatively short bitter sweet movie about an aging French actor, Michel Piccoli, who is nearing the end of his distinguished career when a tragic accident takes the lives of most of his family, except for one little boy whom he undertakes to look after. Catherine Deneuve has a minor, but not a cameo, role of little significance.The American actor John Malkovich has an important supporting role as an English speaking movie director. The tale embodied in the movie is very simple and predictable but the charm of the film is in the brilliant photography and sounds. It is a great little artistic work. Wonderful clear shots of sights and sounds of contemporary everyday Paris but the beauty is in the details. The Portuguese director, Manuel de Oliveira, is obviously a very good observer of everyday human traits, Aren't we all? But he incorporates them into his movies as nobody else does. The importance of the habitual table, for one specific character who has nothing otherwise to do with the main theme of the film (he is listed in the final credits as "Client with Le Figaro"), at the place where he regularly get takes his petit dejeuner and reads his daily newspaper headlines; the organ grinder, men's shoes as a setting for a conversation, the significance of an old semi-dilapidated town house of faded elegance where the actor dwells, etc, etc. All but the last 15 minutes of the movie are in French, most of the last being in English , for reasons which will not be revealed here but will become obvious to the viewer.
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