冬季之前 Avant l'hiver (2013)

这是一部悬疑犯罪包裹下的文艺片。贯穿全片的歌剧唱段《comme un p'tit coquelicot》（虞美人）揭示了本片一半的秘密：对逝去的美丽青春的向往、怀念和对自己另一半不珍惜青春的哀叹与规劝，无论是女主露西还是犯罪团伙女子卢以及她的祖母，都视之为最珍贵的记忆。而影片的另一半，则是显性的中年危机掩盖下的对女性青春的激情：无论是男主保罗对妻子露西的激情不再，还是保罗好友热拉尔对露西的追求与曾经的过往（影片隐晦的暗线），以及保罗儿子维克多的婚姻危机（影片半明半暗的线索），都指向这一点。当然，影...

结局，丈夫在妻子的衣服包里找到了那卷磁带。丈夫呆坐在椅子上，听完那首歌，歌唱者明显比之前在女孩那儿听得一模一样只是声音年轻许多……也许是他自己在岁月长河里遗落了初心，也许女孩也从不存在。一切都是当年的人，当时的歌，只是你遗落在了自己忙碌中。影片中的艺术气息，结局的设定，人物的刻画，环境的优美，以及背景音乐，插曲都是神来之笔。

For about nine-tenths of this movie, I was thinking: yet another male protagonist with a saviour complex, couched in a nuanced narrative. "You've become a wrinkled, old spoilt kid with a withered heart. You act nice, but you don't think of others." This felt like the truth all the way to fifteen minutes before the film's end. The about-turn at the end was really quite sudden, not wholly well managed. The would-be murderess overplayed the pathetic heroine a bit, which contributed to the sense of suddenness. Emotional affairs are still betrayals though--implied but certainly condoned in the film.