I don't know what happened to me during the watching of this movie, but I feel as if I had spent this time catched by it, and especially the marvellous acting of Sandrine Kiberlain. Though, I can understand that this kind of movie needs a real encounter between him and you, and thus it isn't sure that everyone could easily like it : there is not a lot of actions, and rare are the dialogus. But, something is, at every seconds, happening. An emotion is coming up, or a thinking, at every scenes. Sandrine Kberlain is totally mesmerizing with an acting that could be defined as showing by non-showing. All that is happening is inside her, but also in you as you watch the movie playing. In a word, this movie is delicate. And so, very beautiful. Maybe to be experienced alone, in a dark room.
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Escape and release
tao90222 July 2015
A grieving woman, Anne, leads an isolated, uneventful life consisting of work and living alone at home. A bird, that she keeps in her apartment, is her closest friend until it escapes.
She initially appears content with her mundane life but gradually she moves towards reintegrating with the world outside. We see her recovery and transition from the heaviness of loss to the lightness of the everyday life around her. A good idea for a story but poorly told in a film that fails to engage. We are kept at a distance from the main character and don't have much to observe, making it difficult to empathise with her.
She initially appears content with her mundane life but gradually she moves towards reintegrating with the world outside. We see her recovery and transition from the heaviness of loss to the lightness of the everyday life around her. A good idea for a story but poorly told in a film that fails to engage. We are kept at a distance from the main character and don't have much to observe, making it difficult to empathise with her.
The Thing With Feathers
writers_reign17 August 2012
Warning: Spoilers
This is the kind of role that any actress worth her salt would PAY to play, irrespective of whether or not they had sufficient acting chops to do it justice. That puts it in the arena with Blanche du Bois, Lady Macbeth, Frankie Jasmine Adams etc but there's one crucial difference; with Blanche and co it was all there on the page, Tom Williams, Bill Shakespeare and Carson McCullers have done the spadework and all the actress has to do is stamp her own personality on the role. Not so with L'Oiseau, this time the actress has to FIND the character and then illuminate her and Sandrine Kiberlain is nothing less than stupendous. But then she is an actress and she is French and with the possible exception of Vanessa Paradis and Ludvine Sagnier there's no such thing as even a mediocre French actress. Her role in L'Oiseau is a distant cousin to the role Isabelle Huppert played in La Dentelliere in that in both cases highly intelligent, vibrant actresses were required to play DULL and COLORLESS characters diametrically opposed to their normal selves and both are beyond praise for what they brought to the respective roles. Sadly I doubt if L'Oiseau will be around for very long but it will certainly reward further viewings and I wait impatiently for the DVD.
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