I would have given this film an extra star if it had ended after the scene in the car towards the end. Jean goes home sad but honest to wife and children and that is it. It would have made a wonderfully subtle, bittersweet tale about 'la douleur de l'amour'. Unfortunately, the director turns it into a tragedy of the weakness of man in the last minutes.
The cast does such an excellent job of interpreting perfectly ordinary people that they become believable despite the perfection. Lindon, looks, talks and moves the part of a mason and Kimberlain is fragile and just old enough to be believable as an upper-class spinster. Their interaction mostly with looks and small gestures is at times painful in its subtlety.
The score accompanies the story wonderfully, in short it is quite a good film, but I just was not in the mood for the fall of man.
The cast does such an excellent job of interpreting perfectly ordinary people that they become believable despite the perfection. Lindon, looks, talks and moves the part of a mason and Kimberlain is fragile and just old enough to be believable as an upper-class spinster. Their interaction mostly with looks and small gestures is at times painful in its subtlety.
The score accompanies the story wonderfully, in short it is quite a good film, but I just was not in the mood for the fall of man.