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A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (French: Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà; literally A Man and a Woman, 20 Years Already) (1986)
Director: Claude Lelouch
Watched: 6/29/18
Rating: 5/10 Released 20 years later
With same leading duo,
Takes place 20 years later,
We see what has changed.
Ah, but we never asked to see!
We liked the ending.
Might be fine as stand alone,
But as sequel to
Superb and eloquent film
That already had
A fitting hopeful ending,
This fares quite badly,
Appearing contrived and forced-
Trying to do what?
To make something from nothing.
Longer than the first,
Less story yet more talking;
Score pales in contrast,
Not to mention recycled.
Flashbacks to first film,
Compare contrast montages.
Ah, so what has changed?
Man now retired from racing,
Though still does for fun;
Happily engaged to Girl,
A very young one-
Whose older sister is with
Man's grown son Antoine.
Woman now film producer,
Married then divorced;
Woman's grown daughter Françoise
Tries to dress like her,
An actress that works with her.
Charming reunion,
Affectingly bittersweet.
Here things start downhill.
Woman called Man- but why now?
Wants to make a film,
About their great love story-
The best of their lives,
"The one we never started."
Wants his permission.
He says no, but she insists.
Confounding scenes show
Woman's Daughter playing her.
Actor playing Man
Of course becomes her lover.
Ah, so they relive
Then watch what fate denied them.
Which of course leads to
A romantic overnight.
Ah, this changes things.
An opportune news story,
Becomes replacement:
Escaped serial killer
Murders wife, child,
Then his doctor and his wife.
Woman nixes her
Attempt to reproduce her
Love story with Man.
A little to close to home?
As she begins the
New serial killer film-
Daughter and lover
Still playing the leading roles,
Man returns to Girl,
Who has learned of the affair.
Ah, things get weirder.
During desert car rally
She wants to go home.
"It's the last favor I'll ask."
When alone with Man,
Slashes tires, cuts wires,
Pours out all water.
Ah, the naive young in love.
Sadly, they are saved,
Girl's suicide mission fails.
Man goes to Woman,
For happy ending at last!
Reader confused yet?
Was as confusing to watch.
Plot aside, what's wrong?
Poor editing makes chaos.
Inept transitions,
What was film and what was real?
What was filming film
And what was meant to be real?
The last five minutes
Redeemed the film a little-
Little dialogue,
Exquisite camera work,
Subtly meaningful.
Ah, A Man and a Woman:
20 Years is Still Too Soon. Choka (long poem) is an epic storytelling form of poetry from the Waka period, an unrhymed poem with the 5-7-5-7-5-7-5-7...7 syllable format (any odd number line length with alternating five and seven syllable lines that ends with an extra seven syllable line).
#Choka #PoemReview #Sequel
Vihren Mitev
Often it goes like this - big love come into existence and it is unshared. Often it goes also like this - the feelings between (at least) two lovers are not the same and start at a different point.People say that is harder for the man to live through separation rather than a woman. He felt it in the beginning weakly but with time the lack becomes a pain and the pain - in crisis. It was absolutely opposite for the woman. In the beginning she felt awfully but with time compared to man she got on her feet in searching another rogue.For good or for bad this movie makes this stereotype in pieces by showing the more realistic variant of a such possible experience. Was it because of the refinement of a cinema woman and (surprisingly) of a race driver or it was because of the soberness of the producer - this is what I do not know - but the movie was very real, charming, romantic till its end. Was it because of the samba of Vinicius or because the love of a blond - this is what I do not know.Both protagonists, step back in front of the ambition to take main role in life, find equal language which lead them to the natural end of such adventure. But right then, the feelings which run through us, guiding us as we are their marionettes take part; the feelings of which we are slaves. With them the expected end becomes hard to be predicted.What about twenty years later? Who knows? Who knows where will lead us our life path. Will it make clear our desires or will present to us new ones. In every case such a try to predict this end grows pale in front of the present intensity of sensual forgetfulness and dottiness but stays very good model of thinking plots, real or not.http://vihrenmitevmovies.blogspot.com/
writers_reign
Actually, along with several others, I went to watch the original Un Homme et une femme from 1966 - which explained why the cinema was three quarters full on one of the hottest days of the year. It was a one-off screening past of the 'Sunday French Classics' series but somehow what we got was A Man And A Woman 20 Years After, possibly the renters shipped the wrong title. It was certainly not something I would have turned out for even on a much cooler day but as long as I was there I figured I'd enjoy looking at Anouk Aimee and anything else would be a bonus. Lelouch is far from the most stable of filmmakers at anytime, as a director he reminds one of Michael Caine as an actor - both are so prolific that every eight or nine films they turn up with something worth seeing. Alas, this was somewhere between one and seven which means that the best things in it were the clips from the original.
nubka
I have a copy of this film and I do watch it from time to time. While I don't think it's so horrible, I could definitely do without the whole crazy patient/doctor/murder storyline. The rest of the movie, I like.It's interesting to see Jean-Louis and Anne interacting with their now grown up children and to see what paths their lives took after their very brief fling. I think the chemistry is still there between them, and I think they actually look like real middle aged people, not the "perfect plastic botox people" that we so often see in today's films...I gave this film a 8 out of 10 because(despite it's flaws)it was nice to catch up with the lives of Jean-Louis and Anne.
