It is the story of a woman who shapes her life with the passion of eroticism, perceives the world from this perspective and isolated from the lives or emotions of the people around her. If what we feel in our own world is real, what is the equivalent of the rest of us in reality? How does the reflection of our passions affect the life of our environment? Can we find happiness beyond our passions? Letters of Love made me ask these questions in general.
Based on the novel by Milena Agus, the film is directed by Nicole Garcia, the third film competing for the Palm Palm (PalmE d’oR) at the Cannes Film Festival. After L’adversaire in 2002 and Selon Charlie in 2006, the director offers a work to be remembered with Love Letters, even though he returns empty-handed from Cannes.
Love Letters first appeared before the audience with the film in October in Turkey. Very few cinemas are waiting for the audience this week. Oscar-winning Marion Cotillard, the lead actor of the film, is the second film to be released in Turkey. Though it will reach more audiences with the Hollywood-produced Allied film released last week, I think the role of Gabrielle in Love Letters is another challenge for her acting.
After World War II, Gabrielle lived an isolated life with her family in the countryside. He seeks passion in a married man, and when he is rejected, he almost loses himself; dives into the forest on the shores of the farm where he lives and remains with pain. When the village people find him, this time he closes himself into his room and closes inside more.
His mother thinks a man will do him good and he decides to marry Gabrielle. Gabrielle will either be hospitalized for mental disorders or marry her workers Jose. Accepts a marriage with Jose; will not be with him. While Jose loves Gabrielle under this agreement but in his own way, Gabrielle goes to a therapeutic spa because he has dropped a kidney stone, and his passion with the lieutenant he has met there is on fire.
Letters of Love are shaped around a woman who shapes her life with the passion of eroticism, perceives the world with this perspective and isolated from the lives or emotions of the people around her. What I would call an erotic drama is a women’s film with the interpretation of Nicole Garcia. While men are a tool for women’s self-expression, the world is interpreted from the perspective of Gabrielle, her mother, brother and Agostine, who works in the spa, and is expressed by the flaws of human creation.
An obsessive character, Gabrielle’s only passion for the world. He talks about it when he writes his feelings for the married teacher. And this experience gives the replica of his feelings for Andrea; When she hears things that she doesn’t want from Andrea, we find her running again, just like her first rejection. Gabrielle, who wants to experience sex without asking for sex without having sex with José, who meets the need for sexuality for not having an affair, wants to have sex Andre really ”with Andrea, but this is part of Gabrielle’s desire to create her ideal world. My professor from the university. Dr. Çetin Sarıkartal once said that we live in love once and then we look for that feeling. This story supports this idea.
Although the film proceeds at a slow pace, each scene is transformed into a visual feast with lacework. The next time I watch the film, there will be other details to capture. Marion Cotillard gives the body to Gabrielle, who travels between madness and a normal life. Do You Have the First Courage with Him? I met the movie. Even though they have different character structures, the personal characteristics of these two characters reminded me of my first acquaintance and again fascinated me.
It is not this side of the story that struck me more, as the film proceeds in line with my predictions while trying to connect with a shocking ending; simple but deep, it was the last scene to conceive new stories. Would it be good to turn my center out of ourselves for a happier life? Watch the film, your comment…
Mal de Pierres (2017)
Directed by: Nicole Garcia
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel, Alex Brendemühl, Brigitte Roüan, Victoire Du Bois, Aloïse Sauvage, Daniel Para, Camilo Acosta Mendoza, Victor Quilichini, Julio Bollullo Carasco
Screenplay by: Jacques Fieschi, Nicole Garcia
Production Design by: Arnaud de Moleron
Cinematography by: Christophe Beaucarne
Film Editing by: Simon Jacquet
Costume Design by: Catherine Leterrier
Set Decoration by: Cécile Deleu
Art Direction by: Sandrine Jarron
Music by: Daniel Pemberton
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: IFC Films
Release Date: July 28, 2017
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