English title: A Room in Town
Mme. Langlois is a widow living in Nantes in 1955. Guilbaud is a factory worker who rents a room at Mme. Langlois' apartment. He has a girlfriend who loves him very much. Mme. Langlois has a daughter named Édith who got married recently to a man she does not love. He is jealous and violent. One day, Guilbaud and Édith meet by chance. Did I mention that there is a strike going on, and that's the reason Guilbaud has so much time in his hands?
Sung-through melodrama with no songs, only recitatives. Those who consider the working class and its organized movements through a romantic prism may find this entertaining or even enthralling. Those with a pathological aversion to the spoken word may be in for a treat, too. I am afraid there is little of interest for the rest of mankind, although, to be fair, it is not badly done within its own rather peculiar (and mysterious) constraints.
Rating: 30
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