I liked it because it could have been adapted from a short story by Guy de Maupassant. Two women are drifting away, poor ones in a luxury microcosm (the French Riviera), and their drift is described in a minimalist but attractive mode. They are only a palace hotel maid (the mother, Miou-Miou), cleaning spotted sheets, emptying bath-rooms dust-bins and sometimes used as passive looker-on by crass couples -and her young spoiled stupid (but handsome) daughter (Stella , Vahina Giocante), who thinks she can progress in the job of "go-go girl" and emerge without being someday forced to become a whore. Sex and money are the main issues in this world, and they try both to escape from it and to get scraps of it...The mother shrinks down with solitude, totally dependant on her daughter, and when she is out comes to inebriating a pizza deliverer to lay him down for comfort - the daughter cowers in front of the leader of a "vitelloni" (wink to Fellini, Italy is only some km away along the coast...) gang, a useless brat, and thanks him for driving her around in his Benz spider with a blow-job, and then is dropped down : what more common (but what a success if it were signed by Jean-Luc Godard !). The mother, passing a very decent little guy in the hotel corridor, slips under his door the card of the joint where her daughter pole-dances. And fatality enters the stage, the shy little man (Elie Semoun) goes to the bar and meets Stella, and the second part of the film begins, with an end Hitchcock (think of "Frenzy"...) would not have disclaimed. And after that life goes on as before, and even worse...
Special thanks to the luminous photo of France southern sea-side, to the analysis of the social background on the Riviera, and of working women condition in our palaces back-rooms and bars, and bravos to the actor performances of Miou-Miou, Vahina Giocante , and Elie Semoun (reminds me of Peter Lorre in "M"...) PS : What has become of the attaché-case full to the brim with bank-notes ? I infer from the last images that it has been lost : what a pity...
Special thanks to the luminous photo of France southern sea-side, to the analysis of the social background on the Riviera, and of working women condition in our palaces back-rooms and bars, and bravos to the actor performances of Miou-Miou, Vahina Giocante , and Elie Semoun (reminds me of Peter Lorre in "M"...) PS : What has become of the attaché-case full to the brim with bank-notes ? I infer from the last images that it has been lost : what a pity...