Sara Forestier, Camille Cottin and India Hair in “Trois Amies”, by Emmanuel Mouret. PYRAMIDE DISTRIBUTION
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Critique Drama comedy by Emmanuel Mouret, with India Hair, Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier, Vincent Macaigne (France, 1h57). In theaters November 6 ★★★★☆
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Chanter of the confusion of feelings, Emmanuel Mouret (“Mademoiselle de Joncquières”, “Chronique d'une liaison passagère”) presents, for his twelfth feature film, his work on the profession. This time, he places friendship at the forefront, his three heroines being linked by an unwavering attachment. Even if Rebecca's lover is Eric, Alice's companion whom she says she loves without passion, even more so when Joan leaves Victor, for whom she no longer feels anything. A tragic accident will reshuffle the cards and make everyone reconsider their relationship to love.
Between melodrama paved with guilt, elegantly dialogued marivaudage and modernized boulevard comedy, the director and his co-writer, Carmen Leroi, also slip in the fantastical and the supernatural. It is a kind voice that introduces the story and details the empty streets of Lyon where the story or rather the stories will play out, then gently introduces us to the characters. Wandering and talkative, the film walks the corridors of a high school, the passageways of a museum, crosses bridges, streets, alleys. The virtuoso sequence shots embrace conversations in twos or threes in a Scope format which amplifies passages, breaks in tone, shifts.
It's brilliant, harmonious. There is Woody Allen (“Hannah and her sisters”, “Alice”), Max Ophuls (“Madame de…”) and a vibrant homage to the seventh art when certain protagonists, in the cocoon of a neighborhood hall, savor the confusion of Ingrid Bergman in Hitchcock's “The Chained” or laugh at the endless falls of Buster Keaton. Carried by a masterful collegial interpretation, dominated by India Hair (Joan), frail and strong, Camille Cottin (Alice), armored and yet adventurous, and Sara Forestier (Rebecca), distraught and generous, “Trois amis” distills, to say the connections, fantasies, choices and chances, a delicious delicacy.
