Went
with Alan+Gareth to see this psychological Francois Ozon film yesterday
afternoon. At times, it felt like watching a Woody Allen movie. High school
teacher Germain (very well played by Fabrice Luchini) is bored by his job and
depressed by the lack of imagination (and effort!) shown by his French
literature students… but encouraged by the creative-writing assignments of one
talented 16-year-old pupil who writes about his attempts to wheedle his way
into the middle-class home of a classmate. It becomes a matter of rather
uncomfortable classroom voyeurism (with comic elements)… the boy’s fascination
with his classmates beautiful mother (Esther, played by Emmanuelle Seigner)…
and, ultimately, affects Germain’s own job and marriage (he’s married to
Kirsten Scott Thomas!).
In the
end, I really didn’t know what to make of it… and came away feeling ultimately disappointed.
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