Nothing happens in this movie. It's just about a guy who cheats on his hot wife with a woman he briefly knew in his past. Granted she's also hot, but I expected his wife, who was on the verge of a mental breakdown the entire movie to find out about the affair and lose her s**t. Or maybe expect the side chick to go ballistic and kill the guy's wife..make it look like an accident. I guess those scenarios are too played out for this movie cause as I stated, nothing happens in it!! At the end it's an amicable split for the married couple and nobody gets hurt, in fact they both flourish in their relationships and careers. Wow..what a waste of 100 minutes of my life.
Plot summary
Luc leads a peaceful life with his wife Stephanie, a sports instructor, in the wonderful region of Charlevoix in Quebec. A splendid wife, beautiful house, faithful friends, hunting, skiing, hockey - a perfect life, one would say. But it is marked by the severe depression that hit Stephanie and she is enamored of Melissa, a nurse and friend of the couple and she is the wife of Isabelle, a doctor. While honored in Paris for his career as an architect, he accidentally meets Lindsay, a woman he once knew -met while he was in Toronto to participate on a jury. He remembers their story of love fulgurate they lived on two nights. Caught in a triangle of emotions, he puts everything in jeopardy to pursue her as his seemingly-perfect life begins to fall apart.
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Director
Top cast
Marie-Josée Croze as Isabelle / Melissa's lesbian husband
Mélanie Thierry as Stéphanie / Wife
Tech specs
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 937.36 MB
1280*682
French 2.0
NR
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Where's the excitement?
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True blue Denys Arcand movie
Most critics have scorned at this movie for not being the usual politically, critically engaged Denys Arcand movie. Arcand started by exposing the many ills of a corrupt and dominant liberal (in the economic sense) society, used a lot of sarcasm in later movies to depict the ills of large state bureaucracies. This movie makes no exception as he stages architecture juries and again Quebec's health system. I do not agree with some of his reductionist statements, but I do love all of his movies for being pure art. "Le règne de la beauté" is by far his most achieved artistic statement, whereas he brings out the beauty of all the characters,making them so endearing, and of course showing the best sceneries across the four seasons in the province he truly loves.
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It had low expectations and it was better than I thought
Being a huge fan of ''Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain'' and of ''Les Invasions Barbares'' I was anticipating this film to be pretty awesome until I read reviews that were saying that even though the images are absolutely stunning, the movie was empty. Well I definitely agree about the images, but the film wasn't empty at all. It was a realistic look at the life of a beautiful, successful young adult. The characters are ''modern'' if I can use such a term. They admit to cheat on their partner without any guilt like it was normal and I feel a little social criticism on Arcand's part. It's like the film Nashville, there's not really a story, but some observations by the director. I don't compare this movie with Nashville, but I think you get the point. It's a beautifully shot realistic view into a young successful architect life