Looking for Hortense

Looking for Hortense

2012 · 100 min · FR · 5.4 (47 votes)
Dir. Pascal Bonitzer · Starring Jean-Pierre Bacri, Kristin Scott Thomas, Isabelle Carré, Marin Orcand Tourres, Arthur Igual, Jackie Berroyer · Music Alexei Aigui
DramaComedy

Damien is a professor of Chinese civilization who lives with his wife, Iva, a theater director, and their son Noé. Their love is mired in a mountain of routine and disenchantment. To help keep Zorica from getting deported, Iva gets Damien to promise he’ll go to his father, a state department official, for help. But Damien and his father have a distant and cool relationship. And this mission is a risky business which will send Damien spiraling downward and over the edge...

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A quiet, observational drama about the suffocating weight of routine and the slow erosion of love. It captures the mundane despair of a marriage stuck in a rut, punctuated by moments of dark, ironic humor. Feels like a sigh.

melancholiccynicalwrydismalslow-burnEuropean arthousecharacter studynaturalisticdisenchantmentroutinefamilybureaucracy
husband wife relationship
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