The Housekeeper
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Actor: Claude BerriBrand: Trinity
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 9 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Product features:
- HOUSEKEEPER, THE (DVD MOVIE)
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Movie Review: Could It Be I'm Suffering Because I Won't Give In?
Summary: 5 Stars
Jacques is a fifty something Parisian sound engineer who hasn't quite gotten the hang of bachelor life. Tired of the mess in his apartment, he hires Laura as a housekeeper. Laura does her job well but brings complications to Jacques life when she looses her apartment and asks to sleep on his sofa. Jacques and Laura fall into a sexual relationship with ease. But Jacques has demons in the form of a cheating ex-wife who wants back in his life. Running away from his ghosts, Jacques flees to Brittany. Laura begs to come. She also begs Jacques to love her. Jacques remains indifferent, though tender and sweet. While in Brittany, Jacques discovers that his ex-wife slept with his best friend. Pre-occupied with his past relationship, Jacques does not notice until it's too late that Laura has slipped through his fingers and into the arms of a younger, happier man.
The Housekeeper is a subtle and sexy film, devoid of the cliches typical of older man/younger woman movies. Emotionally, it seemed like a French version of the good and underrated American movie and book, Shopgirl : A Novella/Shopgirl by Steve Martin. The older man sees the younger girl as a diversion from a stressful life-charming, but not quite a good fit. The hair isn't right. The clothes are wrong. He can treat her well, but can't imagine a future with her. And the younger woman is left asking "Why don't you love me?". In both The Housekeeper and Shop Girl the male/female characters are transformed-the girl grows up and realizes her self worth, the man realizes too late that he valued things that were unimportant and that may be the reason he's still chasing girls in his 50's. Having once loved a man ten years my senior, I could completely relate to the indifference that Jacques levels at Laura. This film felt very real, but it isn't a downer. Charming and wonderful, The Housekeeper is a keeper!
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