Miss Solène Marchand and Mr. Hayes Campbell met in a trailer where it may have been an experience of love at first sight.
Much of the film focuses on the age difference of the 24-year-old pop star of a "boy's band" and a 40-year-old woman. It stretched credibility to believe that Solène would be turned into a pariah in the public and her daughter Izzy humiliated at school due to the callous media. The more likely response would have been a public outpouring of interest and support to the lovers.
Solène runs a posh art gallery in Los Angeles. But there was no hint of the homelessness, encampments outside her building, or feces and needles in the street. Similarly, when Solène and Hayes meet in his hotel in New York, there was no evidence of crime and no migrants occupying the hotel. Is the film audience supposed to suspend willingness of disbelief for a purely escapist experience? This was not a true depiction of L. A. or N. Y.
There was an ebb-and-flow in the relationship of Solène and Hayes with the former making all of the decisions to suspend the relationship and later re-start it. Her final decision is the 5-year rule in which they will remain separated for half a decade and then see if they might be a good fit.
Perhaps a better 5-year plan would be to live together for five years and see if marriage may be in the offing after that trial period. That approach might have been more healthy than the one depicted in the film.
Much of the film focuses on the age difference of the 24-year-old pop star of a "boy's band" and a 40-year-old woman. It stretched credibility to believe that Solène would be turned into a pariah in the public and her daughter Izzy humiliated at school due to the callous media. The more likely response would have been a public outpouring of interest and support to the lovers.
Solène runs a posh art gallery in Los Angeles. But there was no hint of the homelessness, encampments outside her building, or feces and needles in the street. Similarly, when Solène and Hayes meet in his hotel in New York, there was no evidence of crime and no migrants occupying the hotel. Is the film audience supposed to suspend willingness of disbelief for a purely escapist experience? This was not a true depiction of L. A. or N. Y.
There was an ebb-and-flow in the relationship of Solène and Hayes with the former making all of the decisions to suspend the relationship and later re-start it. Her final decision is the 5-year rule in which they will remain separated for half a decade and then see if they might be a good fit.
Perhaps a better 5-year plan would be to live together for five years and see if marriage may be in the offing after that trial period. That approach might have been more healthy than the one depicted in the film.