FRench film manufacturer Leonore Serraille came to Berlin with a strange, unchanged and dissatisfied developed feature, something that didn’t really deliver the realistic views that seemed to be offered.
Her spiky, funny debut Jeune Femme caught the attention – and her followup mother and son was a moving immigrant adventure. But it seems like an unfinished sketch for something that probably requires more development in the script stage.
Adranic Manet plays Ari, a high strung, sensitive, no shift person who in his late 20s still lives with his hard -working widow and unable to cope with anything. It appears that he throws his girlfriend into events that reflect on her. Ari recently flunk from his latest attempt at having a job – as a primary school teacher – and when his father finally threw him out for his own good, Ari went around talking to ( and crashed along) a number of his former acquaintances, and finally in contact with his girlfriend Irène (Clémence CoolLon).
The very beginning of the movie is the best part, but also the most chaotic. We see hopeless, unlucky Ari, the baby-school trainee teacher, trying to be interested in his class of strong little kids in a complex poem he tried to read aloud to them-under the eyes of his over-teaching. Does Ari think he is addressing a graduate seminar? These are young children, which are completely not interested. Poor genitals, under pressure, weakening in front of the class. This is a happy -noisy moment, showing how big – slippery – Ari’s useless. It was after he stopped that his father had thrown him away.
But wait. Some other scenes, maybe flashbacks, show Ari who is completely brilliant at work: she has a natural gentleness and creativity and natural awareness of what children want. Small children love her. So what’s going on?
This is not clear. But what is clear is that the subject of children is very important to Ari. Eventually we saw Ari trying to reunite with an old female friend who was a bit high in her own, and a friend who was rich, unwanted and career. Both of these encounters are like improv classes of actors – and then the unpleasant -rich man, brightly regretting how he means to poorly, he only gives him a key to his flat to beside the sea, with an offer to stay there as long as he likes, an unmistakable gesture present to facilitate the next scenes that themselves will not tie anything or leave them Interestingly, it was not opened. Serraille is a strict talent that makes the movie but it’s not his best job.
