J'aurai bien aimé dire que j'ai adoré ce film...Disons que c'est le cas... à 95%. Deux scènes m'ont vraiment gêné:celle du chaton du concierge en train de lapper...et une autre à la limite du soutenable:le duo de brossage de dents durant laquelle les deux acteurs parlent avec du dentifrice plein la bouche!...et ça dure..ça dure! Chacun ses phobies.
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A Compelling Drama
Author: Adrian Glamorgan from Australia
24 July 2008
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Reviewers talk quirky, but offering a different view of an event in September 2001 has to take a roundabout journey to give space for us to rethink events we regard as given. This is not about what the old generation can teach the new - it's about the shifting power balance in the world, a confidence that is about to slip like a picture gone out of focus, a few days before September 11. Through a glass darkly, we feel the imminent change about to happen, the jockeying for position between old, new and confused, but the viewers' foreknowledge gives the plot line extra significance and meaning that would make it otherwise a spy chase thriller and not much more.
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How often do you see on modern films the kinds of discussions that are in this film? A European perspective, a new kind of world, where even the chauvinist French drive German cars,and the American Empire is given twenty years to live. More films need to be made that explore the truth, separate the paranoid from the conspiratorial, the kooky from the careful look. This films does the latter - thanks to masterful casting and,ahem,unorthodox execution. Binoche has given a sophisticated performance.
