9/10
Veronique: "Where are you?"
7 October 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This little french jewel of this ever-day-movie is subtle on the edge of adultery. she a middle-class-teacher and he a working.class-carpenter. They did not and never expected, the lovefall bu, yes, it happened.She is a stand-in-techer in the class of his son. .She is offered to stay but denies for a new asignement in Paris. This the reason she tells at school. Him she tells the day and deparure of the station, waiting for him after their together-night. He comes to the station but waits, frozen by time.. She is invited to the birthday party of a relative at his home. While she plays the violine the carpenters wife, Veronique sees what she sensed as the answer why her husband is lately absnt munded: "Where are yoy?". He pretenmds not to understand but both know. She could start off a screaming scene but does not. It could not be part of the movie. Jean comes to the station but does not come upp. They both wait, frozen by time. The train leaves. He returns home wheer life returns to normality. The middle aged carpenter had his excursion what not a few men in his age are confronted with.. Some do not return but divorce. Them who return resume fresh the ordinary life. An experience for him and her, the husband and the wife. An every-day-adventure and experince of: "Where are you?".
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