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  • walesgvdh5 December 2007
    Warning: Spoilers
    After forty years of marriage, Andre and Jamie divorce in ultimate shouts and completely cease being seen. Still tempting, André endeavours to believe that it found the one second youth, through his desire for Julia, his new partner 25 years old. But whereas it spins the perfect love, an accident of health leads it to the hospital. It is there that, by chance, it crosses its ex-wife, elegant and dynamic sexagenarian, which caps from now on the patients. Upset, André then takes suddenly conscience of what it lost and tries by all the means of reconquering it... ADDITIONAL INFORMATION fires of the glamour By exploring the relations in love and the desire at the third age, a topic still little approached by the fiction, Olivier Lorelle carries an at the same time tender glance all and without concession on these growing old, but quite alive heroes. Because they know their counted time, André and Jamie, each one with their manner, are environed present. An urgency felt all the more extremely by Andre that Emile, his elder of a few years enclosed of rheumatisms, returns a cruel effect of mirror to him, and does not finish of them a genre on its last conquests. In this countdown, the damaged bodies are shown without false modesty, from where moving the sensuality which emanates from it. On a tragic-comic mode, flirtant sometimes with the light comedy, film ingénue also to follow the sentimental meanders of this couple to the long course, between complicities and incomprehension which perdurent. Of paso doble in track races, the reconquest takes the form of one. "In love, in fact the first fifty years are difficult", André releases, to convince his ex-wife that the best remainder to come. Andrzej Seweryn, actor fetish of Andrzej Wajda, incarnates with plume this pooch which enforce valiantly its bicycle to make the seat of its beautiful. A first film with the new tone on last fires of the glamour, by the joint author of Natives, rewarded this year with Rachid Bouchareb by César for the scenario.