Sunday, May 25, 2008

Les chansons d'amour (2007)

Synopsis [spoilers]: A guy lives with two women in a ménage à trois. One of them dies suddenly, the one with whom he apparently had the stronger bond. He then becomes involved in a homosexual relationship.

Appraisal: I really was expecting to hate this film, but obviously my fears were largely unfounded. While not what I consider a great film (too trivial perhaps?), this is a bullshit-free account of modern relationships, which uses the device of song interludes to expand on characters' feelings and states of mind. Nothing new here, this is what songs are classically used for in musicals, except that the music here is just mediocre and the singing pedestrian.

Rating: 55

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