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From: Louise Camrass
Category: Films
Date: 23 May 2001
Rien a Faire. Love in a supermarket. A great film. Classic emotions, repressed desire, the joy of consummating it, betrayal. People breaking through the straightjacket of adulthood to play and fondle each other while doing mundane cleaning jobs. The romance of ordinary people which bypasses social barriers. Natural sexy performances, the camera swings around unneccessarily in some scenes and there's a bit too much tinkley piano which distracts a bit at key moments and collides with the realistic style. Perhaps they ought to have had a live pianist in the background. This was a slight problem I had in that its a very well made film but it does'nt push the form. Quite Rohmeresque, quite Godard but the sixties are over and taking the camera off the tripod is'nt really anything new. It made a nice change to see a film which was'nt about drugs or killing people, it showed the pain instead of human relations and left me asking questions which one does in life about how and why things happen and that they just do and that's it...All you have to do is pick up someone else's shopping at the checkout. The characters were also very well drawn, the tough successful male who has to come down to the level of a bored unemployed production line worker (female). His inability to face his feelings/failure/wife/sensitivity and her ability to smile through her tears and be honest and brave, to overcome her "low" class status imposed through "adult" power structures and accept herself as a lovable woman capable of independance and passion.
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