Ultimately, there aren't any pointed conclusions about the meaning of life here other than the rather obvious one that under the still waters of an idyllic Provencal river, the currents run deep
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06/18/08
The Man of My Life (2007)
56 %
Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 10 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 5.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Synopsis: A late-night discussion of love between two men--a married heterosexual and his gay neighbor--drives a wedge between the husband and his wife. Actor-turned-director Zabou Breitman helms this French drama. [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Charles Berling, Lea Drucker, Bernard Campan
Director: Zabou Breitman
Screenwriter: Zabou Breitman, Agnes de Sacy
Producer: Philippe Godeau
Composer: Laurent Korcia, Liviu Badiu
Screenwriter: Zabou Breitman, Agnes de Sacy
Producer: Philippe Godeau
Composer: Laurent Korcia, Liviu Badiu
Reviews
1 - 18 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
The most visually resplendent movie so far this year (photographed by Michel Amathieu), yet it lacks the rich balance of sex and intellect that makes an André Téchiné film great.
10/03/07
If the film ultimately amounts to little more than a midlife coming-of-age story, it's richly imagined and filled with fanciful touches that are in keeping with its passionate subject.
09/26/07
All too often, though, characters bandy about platitudes like they’re tennis balls...or shout for no reason.
09/25/07
The film, a purported examination of male sexuality, was directed and written by women, and thus all we get is two super-sensitive men stroking each others' emotional baggage instead of licking each others' *****.
09/23/07
A sumptuously illustrated but shallow fable of the grass-is-greener conflict between freedom and commitment.
09/21/07
Top Critic
Too much emphasis is placed on wall text that swirls around like the worst Magnetic Poetry.
09/20/07
Despite good acting and intriguing theme, attraction of married hetero to his gay neighbor, the film feels familiar, from its countryside setting to stereotypical treatment of the homosexual; French title, Man of Her Life, is more accurate and ironic, too
09/18/07
Despite good acting and intriguing theme, attraction of a married hetero to his single gay neighbor, film feels minor and familiar, from the countryside setting to the stereotypical charcaters; French title (Man of Her Life) is more accurate and ironic
09/18/07
Director Zabou Breitman, who co-wrote the screenplay, maintains intrigue by regularly cutting back to scenes from the overnight conversation between Frederic and Hugo, adding new insights to the growing friendship.
08/30/07
It is the unique pleasures to be found in The Man of My Life that are what linger.
06/19/07
Although the actors try gamely, they cannot fully rescue THE MAN OF MY LIFE from its flaws. There's a germ of a very good idea in the screenplay, but I just don't feel that the writers fully grasped what they were undertaking.
05/07/07
There is a terrific film hiding away in these two hours of good (but not great) artistic melodrama.
10/09/06
A drama that steadily succumbs to self-conscious artiness, drunk on its own sense of contrived poetry and cloudy existential reflection.
09/12/06
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