10/10
Dewaere's shadow
30 December 2006
Warning: Spoilers
In a holiday camp the dispute between two instruction. The first- the classical virile image: brutal, sure-footed, sarcastic and charming. The second- unobtrusive, delicate,responsive, gentle and in womanhood kind. An imprudence of powerful hero is the beginning of a subtle and ambiguous fight. The victim is easy prey and the instruments are not little. But, in a strange scene of party, the domination is for both same overwhelming, it is a form of captivity in the other's image. And not about homosexuality, a cruel game in fall or about a good moral can talks. It is a basic rule of any relation. Of any admiration/competition gesture, of any summer who is not only a vacation's time.

The merit of Claude Miller is to suggest the deep desire who lives in same relation. To define the behavior of an accidentally master and his obvious fear for the victim's acts. In same time, the film is a beautiful pledge for tolerance, for self understanding thanks to respect for the other. A movie about difference and the limit of common racism. A anti-macho film. But, before the moral, a nostalgic word about lost world.

Patrick Dewaere is gorgeous in his character. Every shade of acting is subtle expressed, with precision and interesting art.

So, in his memory, like remember of his lost, I saw " La meilleure facon de marcher" at a homage for a great actor, too.
19 out of 24 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink

Recently Viewed