Julie (Anaïs Demoustier), age 23 and just beginning her first grown-up at a Paris PR agency, is the subject of this drama. Although her looks attract men to her, in most ways she’s kind of an ordinary young woman, which I liked about the story. Probably had the job, or the people there, been a little different, it might have gone better. Perhaps in another life she’d have become the mistress of the 41-year-old guy she picks up in a club. Instead, there is another job and another man, one who provides an alluring and possibly dangerous alternative to the dull existence she sees before her.
The English title seems unsatisfactory, more suggestive of a romantic film, although the original French title, which translates as Of Love and Fresh Water, isn’t that helpful either. But what it suggests after seeing the film relates to the weight of reality and that adulthood is a series of choices, compromises, and consequences.
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viewed 4/10/11 at Ritz East [Cinefest 2011 screening] and reviewed 4/10/11 and 4/17/11
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