The Big Picture (2010)
(L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 114m
Director: Eric Lartigau
Cast: Romain Duris, Marina Foïs, Niels Arestrup, Branka Katic
Synopsis:
A shiftless lawyer with a rocky marriage has his life turned upside down by a freak accident and takes the opportunity afforded him of starting over. Again he is a victim of his own success, only in a different sense.
Review:
Surprising three-films-in-one scenario, rather like Lucas Belvaux's One Two Three. The first part is a relationship drama with shades of Arnaud Desplechin, the second a Hitchcockian suspense thriller and the third a new identity psycho-drama somewhere between The Talented Mr Ripley and The Passenger. It sustains interest also for its excellent acting, though the direction is fussy at times, and it is notable that the unprepossessing hero is far more successful as both human being and photographer when he assumes a new identity.
(L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 114m
Director: Eric Lartigau
Cast: Romain Duris, Marina Foïs, Niels Arestrup, Branka Katic
Synopsis:
A shiftless lawyer with a rocky marriage has his life turned upside down by a freak accident and takes the opportunity afforded him of starting over. Again he is a victim of his own success, only in a different sense.
Review:
Surprising three-films-in-one scenario, rather like Lucas Belvaux's One Two Three. The first part is a relationship drama with shades of Arnaud Desplechin, the second a Hitchcockian suspense thriller and the third a new identity psycho-drama somewhere between The Talented Mr Ripley and The Passenger. It sustains interest also for its excellent acting, though the direction is fussy at times, and it is notable that the unprepossessing hero is far more successful as both human being and photographer when he assumes a new identity.
(L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 114m
Director: Eric Lartigau
Cast: Romain Duris, Marina Foïs, Niels Arestrup, Branka Katic
Synopsis:
A shiftless lawyer with a rocky marriage has his life turned upside down by a freak accident and takes the opportunity afforded him of starting over. Again he is a victim of his own success, only in a different sense.
Review:
Surprising three-films-in-one scenario, rather like Lucas Belvaux's One Two Three. The first part is a relationship drama with shades of Arnaud Desplechin, the second a Hitchcockian suspense thriller and the third a new identity psycho-drama somewhere between The Talented Mr Ripley and The Passenger. It sustains interest also for its excellent acting, though the direction is fussy at times, and it is notable that the unprepossessing hero is far more successful as both human being and photographer when he assumes a new identity.