Love and disillusion were already mentioned in
Monsieur & Madame Adelman
and
La Belle Époque.
Mascarade,
the fourth film by Nicolas Bedos, once again takes up these themes, with an additional ferocity.
Drawing inspiration from his youth, the author recounts the meeting of Adrien, a former dancer who became a gigolo, and Margot, a fatal con artist.
They will unite to try to offer themselves a dream life by plucking their respective pigeons: an actress frozen in her past glory (formidable Isabelle Adjani) and an uneventful real estate agent (François Cluzet).
And Nicolas Bedos to recount, in a setting evoking the cinema of yesteryear, the shattered dreams of beings damaged by time and life.
In video, Trailer,
Masquerade
by Nicolas Bedos, with Pierre Niney
Miss
Figaro.
– Films are often about those who make them.
is this the case here?
Nicholas Bedos.
–
Masquerade
is riddled with bitter personal experiences, observations of a world I walked through in my early twenties and hated.
When I was more "consumable", I was...
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