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What's in a name / Le Prénom
An incredible movie! Tight dialogue and insightful character study from start to end. A room full of people you have met in real life, or wish you had. Mercurical moods captured in dialog, farcical surprises, fast pacing, embarrassment & anger, family bonds & family feuds.
How many awards did this masterpiece recieve? It deserved more. Obviously direct from a stage play, set within a single room, entirely character & dialog driven. But it is delivered like a fine French meal, in several courses, and with a delicious dessert. Unwrapped slowly, the plot is simply the backstory of each character; their fears, dreams, and unspoken history. Such incredible authorship!
It is a shame few americans will sit thru subtitles to enjoy this marvelous gem. Any remake into english (for their refusal) simply must be done line for line, step for step, and not audience tested for their flat american palatte, and not cast with distracting familiar faces.
It is now readily available on multiple internet sites.
score 10/10
CineTigers 29 August 2020
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