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Title: Indulgent, introspective, incomplete
Review: This film is an example of all that I hate in a poorly made foreign film: boring characters who endlessly talk in the existential sphere ("What is copy? What is real?), tightly filmed shots that give little sense of locale-- but which manage to always maintain a constant focus on the female character's breasts--, and a preoccupation on the act of eating.The main characters are very serious, very educated, and very boring.As typical of existential-type films, the female character represents Woman i.e. she who man needs, even if he doesn't know this himself. The man is just an oaf who struggles though life.It's all a bit much.But, if you like seeing a woman's bosom throughout a film, this is for you.If you think the French language makes everything sound deep and enlightened, this is for you.If you enjoy seeing actors speaking directly to the camera, this is for you.This film is a forced and indulgent exercise producing nothing.Thank goodness for 1.5 speed!
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