French actor-director Louis Garrel is perhaps best known as a heartthrob, but his latest film is a delirious family comedy inspired by his mum.
abc.net.au/news/the-innocent-movie-review-french-actor-director-louis-garrel/102209328The Innocent is the kind of breezy good time that's hard to find at the movies these days. It's not devoid of deeper meaning, but it's brimming, first and foremost, with a relish for storytelling that's playful and fun.
Set in Lyon, it centres on Abel , a depressed, 30-something widower who becomes anxious when his mother Sylvie , a drama teacher who works in prisons, marries one of her pupils, Michel.This ex-con is soon out of jail and helping her plan a new venture – a florist shop in the centre of town. Garrel, who is best known outside of France as an actor , started out as a child in his father Philippe's 1989 experimental drama Les Baisers de secours, before garnering mainstream attention in Bernardo Bertolucci's 2003 French New Wave tribute, The Dreamers.
Garrel frames Lyon as an autumnal and mist-covered city, divided between an old centre where stone buildings crowd narrow streets, and a spartan, semirural periphery of barren fields and modern truck stops.
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