Paul Sanchez Is Back! (2018)
(Paul Sanchez est revenu!)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 110m
Director: Patricia Mazuy
Cast: Laurent Lafitte, Zita Hanrot, Philippe Girard, Idir Chender
Synopsis:
In the south of France, a journalist and a junior officer with the gendarmerie are hoaxed by a swimming pool salesman who is having a nervous breakdown into thinking he is a man guilty of killing his family who has been on the run for ten years. Meanwhile, a distraught housewife whose husband has disappeared struggles to get noticed.
Review:
A film that has some of the flavour of The Night of the Sunflowers (2006), in that it hinges on a fatal misapprehension, except that for much of the first half the viewer is deliberately kept in the dark as to what is going on, to prolong identification with the obsessive heroine. Lafitte is very good, of course, and the Var locations are well used, but the whole circus somehow fails to gain much traction, despite the ironic epilogue which sees the heroine herself as a kind of fugitive.
(Paul Sanchez est revenu!)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 110m
Director: Patricia Mazuy
Cast: Laurent Lafitte, Zita Hanrot, Philippe Girard, Idir Chender
Synopsis:
In the south of France, a journalist and a junior officer with the gendarmerie are hoaxed by a swimming pool salesman who is having a nervous breakdown into thinking he is a man guilty of killing his family who has been on the run for ten years. Meanwhile, a distraught housewife whose husband has disappeared struggles to get noticed.
Review:
A film that has some of the flavour of The Night of the Sunflowers (2006), in that it hinges on a fatal misapprehension, except that for much of the first half the viewer is deliberately kept in the dark as to what is going on, to prolong identification with the obsessive heroine. Lafitte is very good, of course, and the Var locations are well used, but the whole circus somehow fails to gain much traction, despite the ironic epilogue which sees the heroine herself as a kind of fugitive.
(Paul Sanchez est revenu!)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 110m
Director: Patricia Mazuy
Cast: Laurent Lafitte, Zita Hanrot, Philippe Girard, Idir Chender
Synopsis:
In the south of France, a journalist and a junior officer with the gendarmerie are hoaxed by a swimming pool salesman who is having a nervous breakdown into thinking he is a man guilty of killing his family who has been on the run for ten years. Meanwhile, a distraught housewife whose husband has disappeared struggles to get noticed.
Review:
A film that has some of the flavour of The Night of the Sunflowers (2006), in that it hinges on a fatal misapprehension, except that for much of the first half the viewer is deliberately kept in the dark as to what is going on, to prolong identification with the obsessive heroine. Lafitte is very good, of course, and the Var locations are well used, but the whole circus somehow fails to gain much traction, despite the ironic epilogue which sees the heroine herself as a kind of fugitive.