Just a Sigh bears an evocative English title, and one that proves more appropriate than the original French — Le temps de l'aventure, or The Time of Adventure.
Perhaps the sigh suggests contentment, as in a reflex of post-coital release, or perhaps it suggests resignation, like a gesture of exasperated defeat. Alix (Emmanuelle Devos) does both. Her time of adventure, such as it is, begins and ends with a spontaneous afternoon tryst, an opportunity she seizes after eyeing a handsome Irishman (Gabriel Byrne) on a Paris-bound train.
This sort of fleeting European rendezvous belongs to a rich cinematic tradition reaching from Brief Encounter to Before Sunrise. Just a Sigh's day-long liaison sustains interest largely for the a...
Perhaps the sigh suggests contentment, as in a reflex of post-coital release, or perhaps it suggests resignation, like a gesture of exasperated defeat. Alix (Emmanuelle Devos) does both. Her time of adventure, such as it is, begins and ends with a spontaneous afternoon tryst, an opportunity she seizes after eyeing a handsome Irishman (Gabriel Byrne) on a Paris-bound train.
This sort of fleeting European rendezvous belongs to a rich cinematic tradition reaching from Brief Encounter to Before Sunrise. Just a Sigh's day-long liaison sustains interest largely for the a...
- 3/19/2014
- Village Voice
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