A married builder (Vincent Lindon) and his son’s schoolteacher (Sandrine Kiberlain, Lindon’s ex-wife) find an unexpected intimacy in this French drama. And it is intimacy, more so than passion, that is the subject. Having hired him to fix her window, she admires his craft; having completed the job, he takes a few moments to look at the artwork in her apartment. Director and cowriter Stéphane Brizé lets the camera linger while the two observe each other, often without dialogue. Some will thus find the movie slow. Others may not care for the sympathetic view of a married man who at least contemplates an affair despite, as far as we can tell, having a happy home life. But it’s exactly this subtle, sympathetic storytelling that drew me in.
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viewed at Ritz 5 and reviewed
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