... to see that Julie Delpy has done it again, writing and directing another bauble to add to her Two Weeks In Paris etc. What she shows here is just how sure-footed she is handling a large ensemble cast which includes half a dozen children. Okay, not a lot happens; Karin Viard takes a train journey with her husband and child, argues with a couple of passengers who refuse to change places so that she can sit with her family, she sits by the window and something about the landscape transposes her to 1979 and a couple of days of her childhood in St. Malo. She had gone with her parents to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother and it was, in fact, a large family gathering with the requisite amount of laughter and tears. The fact that it was based on Delpy's own memories of a similar gathering is really neither here nor there although it probably gives it a greater authenticity. A wonderful ensemble cast - including fellow writer/director Noemie Lvovsky - flesh out the characters to a fare-thee-well and I for one will be adding the DVD to my collection the instant it becomes available.
Review of Skylab
