Both the mother and the eldest gave a firm negative. Déborah François, who plays the younger sister, believes that this film shows fragments and bits of real life, and describes it as a family portrait.
He raised the corners of his mouth several times while watching, and it was inevitable that his eyes would be slightly wet when Perfect Day sounded at the end. It’s not surprising to show the good times with home videos, but when my mother turned off the projection and the four were silent in the dimming light, I still felt a little bit as an audience.
I really like the plot of the family sitting and laughing on the summer night before my father's death. (This kind of gathering of relatives and friends in the form of an open-air dinner has been fixed by my mind and turned into a French exclusive.) Compared with the scenes of angrily leaving during a family reunion before, this seems to be the only harmony of the whole family in my impression. Time. Finally, my father said a sentimental word, and then immediately cut a perspective to stop it, giving a subtlety that came to an abrupt end.
The structure of the film is actually very clear. It takes five time points from the life of a family of five and 12 years, and uses a family member as the narrative center, thus laying out the story of starting a family. I remember that the last movie that reached such a time span was about couples [surroundings]. I pretend to infer that it is more difficult to tell the story of five people with "chronicles", but it is not easy to be profound. And [the first day of the rest of my life] 110 minutes, which is not too long, made me feel extremely fulfilled and a lot of highlights. It seems that there is no "babble" that French movies are used to.
The personality characteristics of the five characters are also in place. After watching the full movie, turn back and watch the first act. The argument about how to deal with the dog at home, the toughness and stubbornness of the boss Al, and the laziness and laziness of the second child Raph, are actually revealed from the beginning. After that, the confused rebellion of the little sister Fleur and the mother's midlife crisis did not step into the clichés, but they all performed well.
As for the father, secretly lighting his daughter a cigarette while educating him that smoking is "not good", and acting like an old naughty boy at his son's performance is naturally very likable. For a moment of affection, I saw a note written by another man in front of my mother's hospital bed, hid it carefully, and kissed his wife's hand deeply. In the role of the father, there is also a father-son contradiction that spans three generations. And here I have to mention that grandpa, a somewhat arrogant old man, died quietly at his grandson’s wedding after his middle-aged son accused him of never caring about his vent. The remorseful and helpless father therefore insisted on interrupting his son's wedding, which led to a two-year conflict between the father and son.
Father’s love is usually silent, as is reality. The father who blames his grandfather for not having a photo of himself only found out his childhood photo he had been taken with him after his death. Later, Al accidentally got in the taxi that his father drove, and the grievances between the father and the son were relieved in an instant.
The untimely joke made by the doctor when the father visited the doctor was insignificant, but it was like the adjustment and buffer of the tragic plot of the father's cancer, and it maintained the overall bright tone of the film. Fleur's childhood self that he saw before the first night, Raph's unseen affair, and his father's memories of his childhood are all very bright episodes in the film. In terms of details and expression techniques, the film has worked hard but not superfluous, which is definitely worthy of recognition.
As for the actors, it was a small surprise to me. Big brother Pio Marmaï is a newcomer. The role of the mother is Zabou Breitman, whose 2006 directed work [l'Homme de Sa Vie] (he and her man) I like very much, and this time I was able to see his true face. The younger sister Déborah François is from Belgium. She came out of the [children] in Dadenne. It can be said that she is a potential stock. And Marc-André Grondin, the second child from Quebec, was eye-catching in another family movie [CRAZY] in 2005, but this time Raph was nearly 30 years old in the play, so Grondin seems to be slightly It was immature.
In addition, the soundtrack of the film is good. As the theme song, le Premier Jour is impressive.
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