Florent is a spoiled Parisian boy – but charming. One day he encounters a lost American girl in the shape of Alessia. They are both at a cross roads in their lives and something about each of them draws them closer to one another – a real moth and flame encounter.
They then do a sort of road trip with what I felt was an uncanny and instant trust of each other – but they all have secrets and as the hormones rise and the drink flows these secrets lose their cache by being told. Such alliances born of serendipity can also fall at a whim too and the ups and downs are charted very well. The story is told in slow reveal flash backs which is a nice touch.
Now I was not sure if I like this or not, it is well acted and filmed and it ticks so many boxes – it is mostly in English though and Alessia seems to have very little French but there is some. The story is all well and good but I just saw it at first as hedonistic, self absorbance and so found it hard to connect. That said it is a giver of a film and so very much worth bearing with.
They then do a sort of road trip with what I felt was an uncanny and instant trust of each other – but they all have secrets and as the hormones rise and the drink flows these secrets lose their cache by being told. Such alliances born of serendipity can also fall at a whim too and the ups and downs are charted very well. The story is told in slow reveal flash backs which is a nice touch.
Now I was not sure if I like this or not, it is well acted and filmed and it ticks so many boxes – it is mostly in English though and Alessia seems to have very little French but there is some. The story is all well and good but I just saw it at first as hedonistic, self absorbance and so found it hard to connect. That said it is a giver of a film and so very much worth bearing with.