SummaryOrdinary Matty has nothing but three kids to her name. She works at the post office, her husband has run off to the bedroom of one his students. At forty-three life is pretty hopeless.Then she gets in a fender-bender at the grocery story with twenty-nine year old Johnny. After some harsh words, Johnny finds himself enamored with Matty, who finds ... Read More
Directed By:Christophe Van Rompaey
Written By:Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Pat van Beirs
Moscow, Belgium
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Generally Favorable
85% Positive
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90
The movie's steady attention to detail lends it a texture rarely found in films about domestic life. Its eye and ear for the particular and for what is left unsaid in tense conversation is unerring.
80
Highly enjoyable romantic comedy.
75
There are no big-name stars. Barbara Serafian, who is excellent, has a thin, eclectic resume. She looks a little like Frances McDormand.
75
A pleasing alternative to the season's Oscar-baiting movies.
67
Feels not only like a movie from another culture but from another world.
63
I wanted to keep watching. I wanted to leave. In between, I prayed for the piano-accordion soundtrack to silence itself for just one scene (it's like being trapped in a little French restaurant that refuses to close).
50
We're not talking the Dardennes brothers here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably mussed, pedestrian milieu.
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Production Company:
- A Private View
Release Date:Dec 19, 2008
Duration:1 h 42 m
Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
Denver Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Mediawave, Hungary
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
