2019 · comedy · drama · music
La Belle Époque
Directed by Nicolas Bedos1h 55m2019
Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.
Our read: La Belle Époque (2019) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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“You want French romantic nostalgia where a marriage gets one more first spark.”
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