Stillwater gives itself over to drastic plot twists that derail what was already a film over-stuffed with narrative incident and ideas.
The premise of The Intouchables alone nearly renders analysis redundant.
Even when the film hits on some shrewd truths, it always feels timid about digging too deeply into its characters’ inner lives.
All Is Forgiven’s style may be hermetic, but all the better to keep the plot away from the melodrama it would’ve turned into in lesser hands.
From the look of Bernard Giraudeau’s face on the DVD cover, it appears as if he’s smelled Ludivine Sagnier’s le petite fart.
Claude Miller follows his successful Alias Betty with the equally mechanical life-imitating-art La Petite Lili.