The Hairdresser's Husband
by Patrice Leconte
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Actor: Anna Galiena, Anne-Marie Pisani, Jean Rochefort, Maurice Chevit, Roland BertinDirector: Patrice Leconte
Brand: WEA DES Moines Video
Cinematographer: Eduardo Serra
Composer: Michael Nyman
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 82 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2010-12-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Severin Films
Movie Reviews of The Hairdresser's Husband
Movie Review: I disagree with all other reviews I've read
Summary: 5 Stars
(This is edited from my IMDb review) The director (Patrice Leconte) has a gift for helping us see people from other perspectives (e.g., "The Man on the Train", and others). And as in that movie, Jean Rochefort is one of the leading characters. And, as there can be no one single meaning to a work of art, so any movie will evoke many. But I strongly disagree with the narrative described in most other reviews of this charming movie, thinking my own makes far more sense.
A boy (perhaps 12 years old?) on the cusp of puberty, enjoys the sensuality of physical closeness to the woman barber who cuts his hair. His father has aspirations for his children and, one evening at supper, he asks this son what he wants to be when he grows up. He mistakes his son's answer, groping toward his awakening sexuality (and wanting to marry a female barber), for a lack of ambition. He disapproves of his son's ambition and over-reacts, chastising him at the supper table, and sends him immediately to his room. There is a hint that then both he and his wife think he's gone too far and may be suffering from the thought that he's been overly punishing.
But instead of being hurt or angry, his son takes further solace in his fantasy, very much as Max did (in different ways) in the classic book, "Where the Wild Things Are." The rest of this movie is this son's dream of what his future would be like married to a female hairdresser. As in a dream--as in a 12 year old boy's simplified view of what it means to be a married adult and what an adult world is like--many parts of reality are missing: e.g., it's as if he needs no job, as if love & marriage happen in almost an instant, as if his wife's life revolves only about him and his about her, as if all their adult life took place in his wife's barber shop, and as if his wife would, of course, prefer death to losing him.
The somewhat bizarre little recurring dance which he does underscores the non-reality, the dream-like quality of this major part of the movie. This is a charming movie of the world of a boy who is just coming into puberty, trying to make sense of this new, delightful experience of being close to a woman's body. That's the meaning to me and this view is so compelling it's hard to believe the director intended any other. And it's also hard for me to understand why reviews by experienced critics (like Roger Ebert) miss what (to me) is such an obviously intended meaning.
Summary of The Hairdresser's Husband
Nominated For 7 César Awards Including: Best Film, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best ScreenplayIn this acclaimed masterpiece from Oscar(r) nominated writer/director Patrice Leconte (RIDICULE, THE PERFUME OF YVONNE), legendary French actor Jean Rochefort (MAN ON THE TRAIN) stars as an older man whose childhood sexual obsession with a local hairdresser leads him one day to the shop of beautiful young Mathilde (Anna Galiena). What follows is a romance of ultimate sensual devotion, where love will walk the line between physical pleasure and eternal desire. Anne-Marie Pisani (DELICATESSEN) co-stars in this uncommon erotic classic that DVD Savant hails as "one of the most remarkable and affecting love stories ever told!"
EXTRAS:
"Leconte on Leconte Part 1" - Featurette with Director Patrice Leconte
"The Hairdresser's Recollections" - Featurette with Star Anna Galiena
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