By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.75
Director: André Téchiné
Starring: Adriana Asti | Alexis Loret | André Dussollier | Carole Bouquet | Mauro Conti | Mélanie Thierry
Original language title: Impardonnables
Country: france
Year: 2012
Running time: 111
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1583737/
Thom says: “While I’m certainly familiar with many of André Téchiné’s films including THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, SCENE OF THE CRIME, RENDEZ-VOUS, BAROCCO, STRAYED, THE WITNESSES the only one I’ll truly remember is WILD REEDS (1994). He’s always a competent director often dealing with gay themes but the gay element here is a real stretch to be included in this Festival. He excels with his academic pseudo intellectual approach to his trashy stories. Here an older blocked crime writer rents an isolated retreat not far from Venice and he persuades the younger, beautiful estate agent to join him there as his mistress. While setting up house in the secluded estate his daughter arrives, drops off her troubled daughter and proceeds to disappear off the face of the earth. The estate agent, a switch hitter, persuades her new lover to hire her ex-lover, a female ex-detective, to search for his missing daughter. There’s a deadbeat, violent druggie, a son just getting out of prison for some lowlife
crime, it’s all a bit too much with no real excitement or suspense. It has some entertainment value but this is no WILD REEDS. 3.5 cats
“Seen at LGBT Frameline Festival.”
Peter H. says: “I found this film startling in its abrupt and inexplicable character development of relationships with an amazing lack of motive, lack of background, and an implausible set of situations. I had no empathy for a single character in it.
It was almost laughable. I saw THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN and found that Téchiné much more engaging with a flow that
kept the viewer guessing. No cats on this one”