Synopsis
The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.
2013 Directed by Katell Quillévéré
The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.
Sara Forestier François Damiens Adèle Haenel Paul Hamy Lola Dueñas Corinne Masiero Anne Le Ny Karim Leklou Apollonia Luisetti Fanie Zanini Timothé Vom Dorp Maxim Driesen Jaime Da Cunha Hélène Alexandridis Franck Xabrame Pierre Mourdie James De Freitas Manuela Gourary Frank Beauvais Yannick Leclerc Sophie Szoniecky Jean-Pierre Mabille
美麗失敗者, 수잔, Die unerschütterliche Liebe der Suzanne, Сюзанн, 苏珊娜
Is this about lesbians? no. Is this important to lesbians because Adele Haenel came out in her acceptance speech at the Cesars for acting in this film? yes.
adèle haenel looking like she hasn't showered in ages here... i'm not a whore but who knows..
french indie films in which nothing really happens and everyone is so intense.. my favorite
Sometimes a performance goes beyond what is written on the paper. It becomes real and personal. Suzanne starts to run and run and run as fast as she can in the arms of her love Julien as she leaves her son, sister and father behind.
When the movie opens you see a beautiful bond between Suzanne and her sister Maria. With recent death of their mother and dad who has to work long and away, Suzanne and Maria take care of each other. But as time moves Suzanne becomes pregnant at 17 with her son Charlie. She cares and loves him with a job. But one day she falls in love with Julien and runs away with him leaving everything…
Don't mind me I'm just going through the Adèle Haenel phase (and yes it was worth it)
Overstuffed and oblique socio-realism attempts to chart essentially four lives across 25 years in just 94 minutes and the strain shows. Relentlessly underplays its own drama; consequences and realisations never have room to breathe in spite of solid, sometimes very good performances. Suzanne is almost completely inscrutable, her behaviour really just means to narrative ends as bad thing after bad thing keeps happening to her, mostly through fault of her own (I thought about Precious more than once here, though this at least isn't terribly-handled melodrama). She never really develops beyond that initial template in spite of everything in her life that follows. It's all bones and none of the meat you'd hope to find on them.
I really admire what Katell Quillévéré is trying to do with this film, but Suzanne is a little too ambitious a project for such a short runtime. Adèle Haenel is, unsurprisingly, the highlight here - her Supporting Actress César was extremely deserved. This is Suzanne’s story, but Haenel’s naturalistic performance as her younger, put-upon sister Maria is nothing short of captivating.
dès la scène d’ouverture du spectacle de danse j’ai su que j’allais aimer… et puis adèle haenel et françois damiens subliment le film <3
all i want in life is to date a french girl as amazing and beautiful as adèle haenel
dommage, aurait gagné à être un poil plus long
adèle qu'est-ce qu'elle joue bien n'empêche