There's a moment where Irène Jacob says to Jean-Louis Trintignant "I feel I'm in the middle of something important going on around me" and that's a bit like what watching this film is like. Because the rather beautiful piece of parallel action going on to Jacob's life, involving a neighbour who is studying for a law exam (Jean-Pierre Lorit) and whose girlfriend (Frédérique Feder) cheats on him, is actually the former life of strange reclusive ex Judge Trintignant, who befriends Jacob over a runaway dog.
Has some stunning moments, like the camera dropping from the balcony at the theatre. And interesting sound (the sound from the very opening for example coming in much later - Jean-Clause Laureux).
For the third time a wizened old person tries to get a bottle into the recycling - but this time she is helped. And the finale brings back the characters from the previous two films. It's a most interesting trilogy of films. Written again by Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiwicz with contributions from Agnieszka Holland, Edward Zebrowski and Edward Klosinski.
Photographed by Piotr Sobocinski (Marvin's Room), composed by Zbigniew Preisner, production design Claude Lenoir, editing Jacques Witta. It was nominated for key BAFTAs, Oscars and Césars but didn't win any.
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| At the very end of the film |
Jacob was in Au revoir Les Enfants (1987) and starred in Kieslowski's The Double Life of Véronique in 1991, which also sounds good.
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