La belle et la belle, with Sandrine Kiberlain, is a film that is both very concrete and crazy (review)

If you met your younger self, would you also spoil all the key moments of your (his) life?

Beauty and the Beautiful will be broadcast this evening on France 4. At the start of 2019, the screenwriter and director Sophie Fillière (known for Stop or I continuewith Emmanuelle Devos, and prematurely disappeared last summer), brought together Sandrine Kiberlain And Agathe Bonitzer to play the same heroine, but 25 years apart. So far, nothing incredible? Except that in this funny concept, the two women literally cross paths: they discuss, exchange anecdotes… and the older version does not hesitate to tell her younger “Me” the significant events of his future life!

Here is our review of this funny film, to watch again this Saturday evening on television.

Margaux (Agathe Bonitzer), 20 years old, meets Margaux (Sandrine Kiberlain), her forty-year-old version of herself, who spends her time with him spoiler the future episodes of his life with a disarming naturalness. Sophie Fillières enjoys this fantastic comedy pitch Peggy Sue married crossbreed by Hong Sang Soo, in a first movement full of enthusiasm: as soon as we adhere to the anti-naturalist language of the director, we quickly fall under the spell of this spatio-temporal ping pong which is both very concrete and crazy , swift, fuel for playful syncopations and other comical offbeats through alternating editing.

Alas, this beautiful offbeat momentum runs out of steam, only to fall into the more conventional dialectic of the comedy of remarriage and the love triangle. It remains pleasant to watch and intelligently dialogued, but more purring in the staging: the games of correspondences and symmetry on the colors, which evolve as the two heroines merge or take their place, struggle to visually revitalize a story blunt.

There remain some fine acting numbers (Poupaud, dapper as a middle-aged playboy – literally, since he hesitates between the two “versions” by Margaux) and especially actresses: facing the graceful Bonitzer, Kiberlain rewards us with some hilarious burlesque jokes. You have to see it “dance” impassibly in a youth evening or tidy up a packet of frozen peas with a pickaxe.

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