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"Appearances": the couple was almost perfect

2020-09-22T14:41:34.898Z


By putting social adultery at the heart of a social comedy slipping towards film noir, director Marc Fitoussi is following in Claude Chabrol's footsteps.


They are misleading, but that's all that matters.

Appearances are a coat, a house.

The bourgeoisie knows this well.

As it no longer exists in France, Marc Fitoussi had the good idea to locate his plot in Vienna.

Expats still have manners.

Henri is a conductor.

Eve works as a librarian.

They receive, are received in turn.

The first dinner is visibly inspired by Chabrol period Paul Gégauff (

May the beast die

).

Read also:

The new codes of the bourgeoisie

In

Les Appearances

, we are among cultivated people.

The proof, during a cocktail party, a guest said:

"This is Pamela."

And the cinephile remembers that this is the title of the film we shot in

The American Night

by Truffaut.

There is talk of bringing Annie Ernaux or Amélie Nothomb to a conference (we will thank them with a box of Mozart chocolates).

The references flash on the banks of the Danube.

The husband spends a little too much time on the phone.

Obviously, he's having an affair with his son's teacher.

The wife

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Source: lefigaro

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