The burning question existing today: Does loss make us immune to love?
A tiny coastal hamlet (near Marseilles) a summer hotspot out of season, ageing siblings coming to terms with the effects of modernisation and loss.
A slow drama, the brothers and sister are full of both nostalgia and anger; an inheritance to discuss from a father still alive, but silent, unmoving. An old couple, neighbours, family friends, struggling to survive, their young son, wanting to support them, and a young fisherman, who craves something intellectual in his otherwise silent life.
It is about family dynamics about the past, regrets, life, death, but manages to escape sinking into boredom by looking at their changing relationships in the present.
Very few laughable moments, but not so dark that it makes you cry.
The one painful moment in the movie was the old couple and the decisions they take for themselves, it is thought provoking and makes us look beyond the everyday.
The movie takes us on slow and thoughtful walks, mending past relationships, closing on the present bitterness. Building stronger bonds and creating love out of loss.
Instead of making it a political movie about immigrants and their causes, the director deftly uses the issues to delve into the hearts of the family members and allows them to rediscover the compassion they’ve lost during their own struggles.
A representative film, an old house, no longer filled with life, its beauty faded but a glimmer of hope for the future through near death and new love.
This is about aging and how each one handles the change, the passage of time and regret. About taking chances with life as we heal.
About rekindling hope and finding home.
The House By The Sea/La Villa
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