L'age de raison (Sophie Marceau)

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Yann Samuell's L'age de raison (2010) has received a preliminary release date for the Gallic markets: December 8th.

Picturenose:

Director Yann Samuell’s L’âge de raison (2010) is characteristic of his sweet-yet-tearful Love Me If You Dare (2003), namely French cinema at its best.

With a splendid cast, led by Sophie Marceau, the movie goes deep into your soul, searching for your inner child. That’s right, the one who reminds you of your childhood dreams.

Beginning with ‘Dear myself’, we see little Marguerite (Juliette Chappey) writing a set of adorably creative and picture-strewn letters to her older self, containing instructions on what to do in case she hasn’t (or has) become what she dreamed of at the age of seven.

The day she turns 40, Marguerite (Marceau), now a respectable and powerful businesswoman, who has changed her name to Margaret, begins receiving the letters, one by one, and decides it is time to go deep inside herself, into her past.

As she does so, memories rush in – she goes back to her birth town to visit her childhood sweetheart, Philibert (Jonathan Zaccaï), to see if she still feels those “hamsters in her stomach”, and her long-forgotten brother, Mathieu (Thierry Hancisse), to be at peace with herself.

It’s a film that’s strongly rooted in affairs of the heart – a struggle between the past and present that will tear down your own barriers and offer important lessons on love and childhood, as well as offering you the courage to dream and to dare again.

The talented Marceau is adorable, and you can’t help but love the playful Marguerite. Intelligent, touching and funny, the movie is wonderfully constructed and particularly rich in the sort of ‘meaning’ that one only becomes aware of during the ‘age of reason’. Guess what… that’s now!

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