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"Suzanne" ,although realistic to a fault,has a melodramatic screenplay;the story could have been filmed in the French thirties:the bad gal who plays around whilst her virtuous sister takes care of her family.
But "Suzanne" is a movie of the twenty-first century :its treatment is contemporary ,the director refusing the show .The scenes which would pass for "commercial " are not in the movie :Suzanne and her boyfriend's wrongdoings (and cowardice:assaulting an old lady is not that glorious ),we learn them through her lawyer;when she visits her child in his host family ,the scene is worthy of Bresson:no act of defiance,resignation,she gives him a box of chocolate ,he takes one and that's it:the boy seems satisfied,or worse,indifferent to the situation.
The way Suzanne learns her sister's death is rather spooky :such a scene could be in a thriller!but then again,filming a car crash would have been spectacular .
As her father and her son are driving home,they do not say a word.They are not angry,they are not sad, because they know that love runs in their family .There's no explanation for Suzanne's behavior:her dad is a good man ,the first scene takes place in a cemetery where his dead wife is interred .
This film continues with a tradition,that of Bresson,the Dardenne bros and Kenneth Loach;but it adds a female touch :a sense of decency.
Only one sour note:Cohen's eponymous song does not belong here ;and with a "modern" horrible cover at that!
"Suzanne" ,although realistic to a fault,has a melodramatic screenplay;the story could have been filmed in the French thirties:the bad gal who plays around whilst her virtuous sister takes care of her family.
But "Suzanne" is a movie of the twenty-first century :its treatment is contemporary ,the director refusing the show .The scenes which would pass for "commercial " are not in the movie :Suzanne and her boyfriend's wrongdoings (and cowardice:assaulting an old lady is not that glorious ),we learn them through her lawyer;when she visits her child in his host family ,the scene is worthy of Bresson:no act of defiance,resignation,she gives him a box of chocolate ,he takes one and that's it:the boy seems satisfied,or worse,indifferent to the situation.
The way Suzanne learns her sister's death is rather spooky :such a scene could be in a thriller!but then again,filming a car crash would have been spectacular .
As her father and her son are driving home,they do not say a word.They are not angry,they are not sad, because they know that love runs in their family .There's no explanation for Suzanne's behavior:her dad is a good man ,the first scene takes place in a cemetery where his dead wife is interred .
This film continues with a tradition,that of Bresson,the Dardenne bros and Kenneth Loach;but it adds a female touch :a sense of decency.
Only one sour note:Cohen's eponymous song does not belong here ;and with a "modern" horrible cover at that!