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...FILM Entre Nous concludes with the French seashore at dusk, we observe the scene from the perspective of a small girl who is standing on the porch of a beachhouse watching her parents complete the breakup of their ailing marriage. She is the unnoticed observer; slightly confused at the complex adult world, but completely engrossed. The viewer experiences a similar response to Diane Kury's new film--a film that thrusts the viewer into the intricate emotional life of its character's lives, but occasionally leaves them standing alone...
...Entre Nous, the official French entry for the Academy Awards, is a film that examines the close relationship of two women who meet at their children's elementary school play in Lyon in 1952. Unlike Personal Best, where the relationship between the two women is distinctly physical and the film The Turning Point, where the women share a strictly platonic relationship. Kury does not explicate the nature of the protagonists' relationship, but rather leaves Madeline and Lena's friendship ambiguous...
...From French films one has come to expect delicacy, grace, comradely tenderness, a ruminative intelligence. Their directors seem to inhabit an exalted sorority where girlish high spirits, sage whispers and rueful endearments reverberate in the hallways. So leave it to French Film Maker Diane Kurys to devise, in Entre Nous, a bittersweet domestic epic that reconciles feminism with femininity...
...sack husband Michel (Guy Marchand) and a handmade marital straitjacket. Madeleine (Miou Miou) saw her glamorous first husband die from enemy gunfire in the town square, then fell into a pleasureless marriage with a slimy hustler named Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri). By 1952, when most of Entre Nous takes place, each woman is eager to escape the emotional claustrophobia of cooking the meals, chaperoning the children, counterfeiting passion as Monsieur Wrong rolls toward her in bed. To the anger and chagrin of their husbands, Lena and Madeleine find that ecstatic escape in each other's souls...
...Entre Nous looks at its characters with an acute bifocal vision. The women are modern feminist figures marooned in the stay-at-home '50s; the men's attitudes, sympathetic at the time, have a touch of the Neanderthal about them today...