Reviews

I think that film is full of metaphors whether the director has an aim like that. Mainly, I got the idea of "interventionism to private life". What if some people intervene to your life? Or what if "the state" intervenes your life? I felt a referral to "Big Brother" issue too! Also film lights the way for environmentalism issues. Another issue is "resistance to change". It shows what happens if you resist to change. Feelings of stay-cation and isolation results in craziness. Isabelle Huppert is again at the top of her role playing skills.There is an approach to unknown. None of us had thought living at the edge of a motorway but there are real people living like this. The film's strength is here I think. It shows us something that we see nearly everyday but did not touch or feel even once.

I just saw myself in the film as "Erwann" and discovered how the director successfully depicted homosexuality in such a pure and romantic way. Not putting "love" any borders is really the strongest part of the film. Ludivine Sagnier is the strongest candidate for being the new Catherine Deneuve of France. I think the new stars of France are Ludivine Sagnier and Benoit Magimel. Thanks to French cinema for having such nice actors, actresses, directors and producers. But I just waited a popular love song which all the world knows among all these epique ones. Another concern of mine is about the cross-cultural roleplaying experiences of French actors and actresses. They exist generally in French oriented films. I just want to see all these players co-playing with other countries' roleplayers and directors too.

Miranda is a really tough personality. When I watched the film; I did not feel any anger for her, I just felt that she was a loser in the end of her life. She was angry at Andy because Andy did not choose the career path of Miranda but at the same time Miranda was somehow proud of Andy because of her courage of not following her. Miranda is really a complex character but she saw herself in Andy but she ignored Andy's own personality. When Miranda said to Andy "I saw my adolescence in you", the audience thought about Miranda once more. Was Miranda really a capricious, cruel and intolerable person? Or time and conditions made her like that? What is the cost of a shining life? The scene when Miranda was in bathrobe without any make-up was a symbol of Miranda's real personality without any mask. I really liked that film because I found myself questioning about people we don't really like.

I just copy and paste the paragraph below form a web site. And actually I understood the argument below when I just watched the film. There is something going wrong in the film. I neither believed Warhol forced Edie into this darkness nor I believed that Bob Dylan was such a jerk.

"Andy Warhol was often blamed for Edie Sedgwick's descent into drug addiction and mental illness. However, before meeting Warhol, Edie had been in mental hospitals twice and came from a family with a history of mental illness. She was only close to Warhol for about a year, from approximately March 1965 to February 1966.

Another fallacy was that Warhol ditched Edie after using her up whereas the truth was that it was Edie's decision to leave the Factory, lured by promises of stardom by Bob Dylan and his manager, leaving Andy feeling slightly betrayed." http://www.warholstars.org/stars/edie.html

Yesterday I watched this movie in a panel in Istanbul. I really liked the main actress in the film. The director has selected a very natural and frank public figure from Baghdat. The woman has reflected the miserable situation in Baghdat in a very dramatic way. The film was like slapping me. One thing I really attracted was people in Baghdat are not hopeless. Despite everything, they love life and do not give up living. They are making jokes to each other, they smile (very strange for me, because I cannot see such smiles in Istanbul or in other western cultures). I anticipated to watch depressed people before I saw the film but the situation was somewhat different. They experience their sadness , distress and hate for USA deeply, I can see that too. Thank you Melis. I think you should send this short film to many festivals!!!