Bright Days Ahead
- Fanny Ardant: Caroline
- Laurent Lafitte: Julien
- Patrick Chesnais: Philippe
- Jean -François Stévenin: Roger
- Fanny Cottençon: Chantal
- Catherine Laughter: Sylviane
- Alain Cauchi: Jacky
- Marie Rivière: Jocelyne
- Marc Chapiteau: Hugues
- Féodor Atkine: Paul
- Eléonore Bernheim: Lise
- Maud Le Guenedal: Rebecca
The beautiful days ( original: Les Beaux Jours ) is a French film of French director Marion Vernoux with Fanny Ardant. The film is based on a novel by Fanny Chesnel and came on September 19, 2013 in the German cinemas.
Action
The film is set on the French Channel coast: Caroline has hung her profession as a dentist on the nail. Since she now has plenty of time, their daughters have given her an introductory course at the Senior Leisure Club The beautiful days. The drama course that has not liked; therefore, they attended a computer course. Although she is married, she falls in love with the much younger faculty Julien. They love each other in his apartment and in the premises of the club. Julien tells her that he came as a boy in their practice, to see them in doctor's smock. Her husband Philippe, also a dentist, discovers their affair soon and pulls into a hotel. Meanwhile, Caroline wants to travel with Julien to Iceland. When they have to wait at the airport on the delayed flight and Julien makes the acquaintance of a young woman, Caroline is clear that their relationship comes to an end. Julien flying without them. For a beach trip with the other students from the Senior Club Caroline and Philippe come together again.
Reviews
" With no setting of the film to the sublime beauty of its leading lady comes close. Caroline's life crisis claims Vernoux by switching rough images of the container port of Dunkirk in the opening credits with blurred and blurred images of Caroline in her home. Importance Pregnant camera movements accompany the eternal walks the figures on the waterfront, Tousled hair, waves whipping across the sea, the Swiss singer Sophie Hunger sings in a melancholy cover of Noir Désirs " Le vent nous portera " of transience and confidence. [ ... ] Nevertheless, to serve the forces of nature remains on the sea beach for any kind of life crisis cliché. Cliché is also the change of Caroline's external appearance, wearing a sudden the blond hair back girlish open. Cliché are the various minor characters from the pensioners club, the former nymphomaniac who amiable Naive, the lonely widower. "