Man and woman
Before you start reading, I strongly recommend playing Francis Lai's music in the background.
About a year ago everyone suddenly remembered the trilogy "Before Sunrise" (18+), which shows over decades how the characters' relationship develops. Well — it's all nonsense. If you want to see something truly beautiful, sincere and simple about mature love — welcome! Lelouch did it long before all the fashionable post-romantic experiments.
A Chance Meeting
The opening introduces us to two loving parents spending the weekend with their children. She is a single mother who missed the train. He is a father who was delayed by accident. Chance brings them together, paving the way to a new life — "from the boarding house to Paris."
Their interaction begins with small things: conversations about the children, about the journey, about films, about life. Gradually the characters grow closer. Lelouch does not rush his characters and does not force the viewer to feel specific emotions — throughout the film we simply watch quietly.
Simplicity as a Luxury
The '60s were the era of the French New Wave — everyone watched Godard and adhered to the principle "the simpler, the better." In his film Lelouch goes beyond the style familiar to audiences of the time. He mixes color and black-and-white scenes, uses close-ups, and makes music one of the main characters of the story.
At the same time the film is free of ostentatious drama and cheap pathos. It is about silence, about glances, about the moment when two people recognize themselves in each other. And it is in this simplicity that its depth lies.
A Film That Heals
"A Man and a Woman" is not just a love story but perhaps one of the most humane meditations on it. In it Lelouch speaks about the maturity of feelings, the fragility of trust, and how love does not negate loss but helps one learn to live with it.
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Man and woman
I don't want to start the story with a banal description of an autumn landscape. I think everyone right now is lacking warmth, love, and peace — and it's unlikely that the weather alone is to blame. So, in search of a "magic pill" for melancholy, I felt like turning to a French classic — Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman (16+, 1966).