SPOILERS. Patrice Leconte can keep a cool head. After only one year from his last film (the cold and dark "Monsieur Hire"), he made a film that is another type but it's as successful as the previous one. A little boy called Antoine discovers sensuality thanks to his hairdresser, mrs Schaeffer. He decides that when he is a grown-up, he wants to marry a hairdresser. His dream becomes a reality when he's meeting a hairdresser called Mathilde. Then, they are thrilled......
This is this happiness that the movie wants especially to show and its effects on the main characters and the making: the time and the daily life are abolished, the sceneries remain neutral. Concerning the main characters, they love themselves, feel like staying eternally in their "immobile ship" and as Metallica said in one of their songs: "nothing else matters".
Leconte also attaches importance on the hairdresser's customers: they are colourful, a bit odd and due to this they make the hairdressing salon unusual. The end is a little unexpected. You could expect to see Antoine depressed and miserable but not all! Maybe he is lost in his happiness. All in all, a sensitive and delicate film very well performed.
Note: this movie won the Louis Delluc price in 1990 equal with "le petit criminel" by Jacques Doillon.
This is this happiness that the movie wants especially to show and its effects on the main characters and the making: the time and the daily life are abolished, the sceneries remain neutral. Concerning the main characters, they love themselves, feel like staying eternally in their "immobile ship" and as Metallica said in one of their songs: "nothing else matters".
Leconte also attaches importance on the hairdresser's customers: they are colourful, a bit odd and due to this they make the hairdressing salon unusual. The end is a little unexpected. You could expect to see Antoine depressed and miserable but not all! Maybe he is lost in his happiness. All in all, a sensitive and delicate film very well performed.
Note: this movie won the Louis Delluc price in 1990 equal with "le petit criminel" by Jacques Doillon.