The Day I Saw Your Heart
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Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail of boyfriends, Justine thinks she has found The One, a hunky shoe salesman, but her temporary happiness is thrown when her neurotic 60-year-old Jewish father (Michel Blanc) suffers a delayed midlife crisis and announces that his young second wife is expecting a baby. Justine and her half-sister Dom, who is trying to adopt, are rather annoyed at the news. Coupled with resentment about her father’s absence when she was growing up, causes her to spiral into self-doubt. Overflowing with French charm, Justine gets by with the help of her family, friends, and newly discovered muse.
Our read · The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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