Bottle Rocket
Bottle Rocket : short review
A group of three friends decide that their best chance of making a success of their lives is to turn to crime. Unfortunately, as criminals, they are not very good and one mishap follows the other. Spotting a criminal opportunity of a lifetime, the trio become involved with the local crime boss and soon find themselves way out of their depth.
A rich film that tells two stories, converging on the life of two people, Ismael and Nora, who at first glance seem to have nothing to do with each other. Nora (Emmanuelle Devos), 35 years old, always charming and caring, has a 10-year-old son from her first husband - who committed suicide. She is divorced from the second husband Ismael (Mathieu Amalric) and about to marry her third. She travels to Grenoble to take care of her dying father and to spend time with her silent son. Meanwhile, Ismael, a sane but neurotic violinist, is flipping out. Having problems with tax collectors and his sister, he picks up some eccentric habits that land him temporarily in a mental institution, where he provokes the psychiatrist (Catherine Deneuve) and a young girl who is attracted by his behaviour. This is the moment when Nora comes to him with the question to that he should adopt her son Elias. From then on, Desplechin unveils more and more details about his characters Nora and Ismael, who turn out to be quite different from what one expects. Desplechin explores the territory between comedy and tragedy and exhilaration and despair, and the permanent conflict that afflicts us all - the conflict between man and woman, father and child, life and death.
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