Nature of Love

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Don L @RT98863765 Mar 9, 2024 The film tells the story of how the happy-enough but largely sexless marriage of Sophia and Xavier is disrupted when Sophia and Sylvain (who has been hired to renovate Sophia and Xavier's chalet) enter into a passionate affair. There are no villains and no heroes in the piece; we sympathize with all the characters. The dialogue is quite often excruciating at the same time as it is excruciatingly funny ("I think I might have met someone," is how Sopia begins to break the news of the affair to her loving husband. Quite often the difference in social class between the two lovers (and between their families) is the source of much of the film's comedy—and also much of the sadness. It's also a film that makes viewers think—about love, about sexual attraction, and about social class. As Konrad Yakabuski reported in the March 2 Globe and Mail, Simple Comme Sylvain beat out Oppenheimer for the Best Foreign Film award at France's César Awards. My partner Maureen and I watched the film after seeing Yakabuski's column—and we both agreed that the French are right in thinking Simple Comme Sylvain a better film than the overly long, pretentious, and badly organized Oppenheimer. See more Apr 27, 2023 Well worth a watch James Welch, Henderson, Arkansas, April 27, 2023 See more Read all reviews

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