Limited release 7/21/17
Viewed Saturday evening, August 12, 2017 at The Carlisle Cinema (by myself)
IMBd: 7.0/10
IMBd: 7.0/10
RT Critic: 83 Audience: 83
Critic's Consensus:
Critic's Consensus:
Cag: 4/Liked it quite well
Directed by Martin Provost
Music Box Films
In French, with subtitles
Catherine Deneuve
My comments: A French film with subtitles and Catherine Deneuve. Claire is a 48-year old single woman who happens to be a fantastic midwife in a hospital that appears to be in a suburb of Paris. She lives a simple life: working the night shift, riding her bicycle back-an-forth to work, climbing four flights to her small apartment because the elevator is frequently broken, and caring for her garden on a small plot of land along the Seine. Her 20-something son, Simon, is in medical school. Everything changes, however, when the woman who had been her father's mistress 35 years earlier shows up and forces herself back into Claire's life. Claire is very reluctant, feeling that Beatrice had abandoned both her and her father all those years before. Claire meets a man (an interestingly unattractive one at that - hurray for the filmmakers!) loses, her much-loved job because the hospital is taken over by a conglomerate, and even her son't course in life veers off. This is quite an interesting, captivating tale.
RT/ IMDb Summary: Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire (Catherine Frot), a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together in this sharp character study from the César-award winning director Martin Provost (Séraphine).
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