Toutes ces belles promesses (2003)

English title: All the Fine Promises

*spoilers below*
Marianne is a cellist living in Paris. She is in a relationship with Étienne, a violinist who plays for the same orchestra as she does. Étienne dumps her for the orchestra's flautist, leaving her in a wretched emotional state. She decides to take a trip to the seaside, to look up her deceased father's mistress. She starts having vivid recollections, first of her dying mother, then of her childhood years. She retrospectively realizes her mother had a lover, who died in a car accident. Arriving at the seaside town, she  finds Béatrice, his father's love affair of many years, who takes her in as a guest in her house. Béatrice introduces Marianne to a local doctor and the two start dating. Béatrice takes Marianne to pay a visit to her childhood nanny Ghislaine, who still lives in that seaside town. When Marianne was a child, Ghislaine was in love with the lighthouse keeper, but now she is alone. Initially after Marianne and Étienne broke up, she called him incessantly, leaving him messages, since he wouldn't take up her calls. Later on, she stops calling. Around that time, Étienne breaks up with the flautist and starts calling Marianne, who does not take up his calls. On the train ride back to Paris, Marianne inadvertently answers a call from Étienne, who says he will wait for her at the station. Marianne asks a passenger to wear her hat in order to deceive Étienne and avoid him. Étienne is deceived by the ruse, but feels attracted to the woman disguised as Marianne and invites her for a cup of coffee, while Marianne watches everything from afar. While Marianne is walking home some young men who were passing by, seeing her in such a sad disposition, tease her and steal her bonnet, saying that they will only give it back if she smiles, which she does. They ask her to wear the bonnet, which she also does.
*end of spoilers*

Except for the initial sequence of an orchestra playing while members of it flirt, this is a terrible film, one of the worst I have seen lately. There is not much I can say as commentary; I have provided a detailed synopsis above, which may help one get an idea of it.

Rating: 25