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| Better late than never!!! |
Camille Rewind Review (French Film Festival Flick) – How sad
it is that it took 2 years for this wonderful flick to reach our shores? It
would not even see the day of light here if not for the French Film Festival
and I would not have seen it if not for my friend, Sarah and I going on our impromptu
French movie date! To be honest, I’m not really a big fan of foreign movies because
I’m just too lazy to read the translation on the screen but then we are talking
about French language which can sound both nice and annoying sometimes so let’s
cut some slack for them Frenchies shall we? Qui?
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| When girls get together! |
As the title suggest, it’s about Camille (Noémie
Lvovsky – I have no idea how to pronounce her name! :P) a struggling
actress in her late 40’s whom her husband, Éric (Samir Guesmi) just ditched for a younger
women on New Year’s eve. Camille’s daughter convinces her to attend a party her
friends since schooling years, Josepha (the rebel) [Judith
Chemla], Alice (the geek) [India
Hair], Louise (the pretty) [Julia
Faure] are throwing. Camille dresses up in her late mother’s cloths
and heads to the party. Overcome by emotions, Camille has a little too much to
drink and blacks out. She wakes up the next morning in a hospital with her
parents coming to get her and giving her a piece of their mind for drinking and
partying too much. Camille is 16 years old all over again. She tries to make sense of what’s happening
but it seems like she is stuck in that situation for the time being. What makes
it interesting is Camille already knows what is going to happen and tries to
change some of the outcome to avoid heartache she have to face later on.
Camille is not sure how long she will ‘stay’ as a teenager so she tries to make
amends of the mistake she made when she was actually 16 years old. Will she able to ‘change’ her past to life a
better ‘future’? Is it even possible or it is even real that Camille got a
second chance?
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| Ma & Pa! |
Walking into the cinema without having any idea about the
movie was a wonderful delight. The story was an absolute pleasure to watch. Noémie
Lvovsky reminded me of Meryl Streep. It’s not even a surprise that
she directed this brilliant film. For someone who is way past her teenage
years, she played her part pretty well. I could relate to her joy, despair,
anger and a wholesome other emotions because I myself am going thru some of her
situation sans the waking up as a teenager part. The rest of the supporting
cast were also equally marvellous, especially her Mom and Dad, they are such
cool parents. Add Camille’s friends and her ‘husband’ into the mix and voila!
What a perfect casting. Besides the storyline, the music was also rocking with the
girls dancing to Katrina & The
Waves performing Walking on Sunshine. I almost got up from my seat and danced in the cinema. Such a wonderful wonderful movie that is making me smile as i'm writing this review.
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| Love of her life??? |
Watching this picture made me wish I could
wake up one day in my past. It also posed me to ask these questions…what I do?
Would I change anything? Would I want to change anything? How about you? Would
you want to ‘revisit’ your past?
P/s - Merci for the date Sarah, next round we go again okies. :)
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