Polish – French
production, European style…which is a bit difficult to watch, but extraordinary
twist at the end. Although it lacks that open space cadre, it’s a bit closed
and dark, but all European movies have that.
At first the arrival of Ethan Hawke (the troubled writer) in Paris, to see his daughter was just a sequence of his “mental illness” that didn’t even go noticed. But a sympathetic feeling from the audience of a poor man, his wife is such a bitch who divorced him, fly over the ocean just to separate him from his child, or is it something more to the story? He writes letters to his 6 year daughter every day, promising soon to be together, and to compensate for lost time.
The progress of the story also didn’t indicate any soon resolution to his problem, although he was trying desperately. He found a place to stay in a suspicious and poor café in, found a job in an even more bizarre place…
and almost at the same time he meets two woman, or two woman shows interest in him, which gives you the sense that he just might get out of his mess, and reestablish his life again… the first one young Polish girl, the works in the cafe, and the second mature elegant and mysterious that lives on the fifth. He spend time with both of them and up until the very end he realizes that the one of them is a pure figment of imagination, his alter ego. More so that she is the initiator for resolving his fears in a most extreme way. The other woman, the real one is a stone or element that gives balance to the story, and to his sanity. When he realizes his “sickness” and his behavior from it, from his alter ego he chooses the only logical thing for saving his daughter, saving her from him... he chooses to leave.
At first the arrival of Ethan Hawke (the troubled writer) in Paris, to see his daughter was just a sequence of his “mental illness” that didn’t even go noticed. But a sympathetic feeling from the audience of a poor man, his wife is such a bitch who divorced him, fly over the ocean just to separate him from his child, or is it something more to the story? He writes letters to his 6 year daughter every day, promising soon to be together, and to compensate for lost time.
The progress of the story also didn’t indicate any soon resolution to his problem, although he was trying desperately. He found a place to stay in a suspicious and poor café in, found a job in an even more bizarre place…
and almost at the same time he meets two woman, or two woman shows interest in him, which gives you the sense that he just might get out of his mess, and reestablish his life again… the first one young Polish girl, the works in the cafe, and the second mature elegant and mysterious that lives on the fifth. He spend time with both of them and up until the very end he realizes that the one of them is a pure figment of imagination, his alter ego. More so that she is the initiator for resolving his fears in a most extreme way. The other woman, the real one is a stone or element that gives balance to the story, and to his sanity. When he realizes his “sickness” and his behavior from it, from his alter ego he chooses the only logical thing for saving his daughter, saving her from him... he chooses to leave.
Bravo Pawel
Pawlikowsaki.
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