This is the kind of stories that saves us the beginning and the end, peels the whole package and gives us the ambrosia. This only happens in a few weeks, enough time for the principal characters to know each other and recognize in each other: Claire is a teenager that thinks she can overpass her pregnancy without help until she mets Madame Mélikian, grieving for the recent death of his son. To the recipe comes Guillaume, the young man who blames himself for that death. These marked characters, with inner scars, would try to heal each other out of pain. The plot may not sound much special but the way to tell it is exceptional. Told at a slow pace, in a minimalistic narration of the ordinary things that happens every day, "Brodeuses" elaborates a beautiful movie with the colors on the scene and the tones in the meanings. Sentimental in a good way it really invites you to feel what the characters are passing through. Lola Naymark transmits her feeling through her eyes in the middle of silence. Ariane Ascaride gives a sober and superb acting. The cinematography is quite just, revealing and offering the whole Rhone Alpes to us. And finally, the score that tonifies the actions is enough reflexive to accompany the actions. Art cinema, author's cinema, this is a small big gem in a french cinema that was beginning to take a detour to commercial films. If you love the minimalistic storytelling, with parsimonia and gusto, you will enjoy this one. Others beware.
Review of Brodeuses
