A heart in winter

a heart in winter is a French film of Claude Sautet left in 1992.

Synopsis

Maxime (Andre Dussolier) and Stephan (Daniel Auteuil) are friendly and work together in the felted decoration of a workshop of stringed-instrument trade. Maxime falls in love with a violonist Camille (Emmanuelle Béart) independent and tempting who answers the desire of protection of this nature music lover but without state of heart. Camille, Stephan and Maxime appear three attitudes with respect to the music, and, in fine, of the life: Stephan is not artist, but art lover, mature music lover but without genius; Camille is with very so that it makes, it is expressed in art; Stephan is walled in a distancié silence, half-compartment of the life, it manufactures violins of which others will play.

The attitude selected of Stephan exasperates and intrigues Camille which seeks to bore the mystery of this reserve. Does Stephan devote himself to a very impersonal form (or unconscious?) of seduction, with a play of which it loses control when Camille places it obviously face of the feeling, of the life, which it had believed to be able to leave. Petrified by this request for absolute recognition, Stephan becomes " this heart in hiver" who loses the access to the other (Camille) and at the same time to itself.

Nothing is final or tragic (it is the bias of this romantic comedy whose kind is better known in Anglo-Saxon literary criticism under the name of Romantic comedy), since it is the death of the Master of so much liked violin (Maurice Garrel) which recalls Stephan to the alive ones. But contrary to the nostalgic and slightly disillusioned tone that one finds in films of the Seventies of the same realizer, this one is given to reading as a philosophical lesson (a little as if Claude Sautet put " things of the vie" with the study, as if he discovered in this film that the tests of our relation to the other could be the reason for our capacity to transform us ourselves): wouldn't exits of the same temptation to deny the obviousness, the wounds of (Re) the self-knowledge and those which we inflict with the other be the two faces of the same reality?

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