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Le Weekend: Nick and Meg, two teachers in their sixties, come back to Paris
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Approaching old age is no joke, and some strength of will is required to face it with optimism. Doing it with the person you have lived for the last thirty years can cause conflicting emotions.
It is just about these contradictions that this movie talks about, starting from a smart screenplay by Hanif Kureishi, a very good direction by Roger Michell and the excellent performance of Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan.
Nick and Meg are two teachers in their sixties who decide to go to Paris, where they spent their honeymoon, for a few days. But, as time passes, broken dreams and frustrations experienced over the years break out, and they both begin a mutually accepted game of flirtations, rejections, arguments and reconciliations.
It will be so subtle, bittersweet, corrosive, and at the same time tender that the audience will not be able to remain oblivious to the display of contradictions that these two complex characters show. Only in those moments that they both act as two unconscious and crazy young people, there will be the required complicity to believe that they do not only need but also love each other.
Skepticism, subtle irony and a sharp humor go hand in hand in this story that speaks of life and of marks and dependencies that time leaves in relationships.
Texts: Núria Farré. facebook@cinemaperaestudiants.cat
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