PERSECUTION (2009) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Patrice Chéreau
Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Jean-Huges Anglade, Michel Duchaussoy,
Gilles Cohen, Alex Descas, Hiam Abbass
A gloomy, antisocial guy who remodels apartments and volunteers in a retirement home mopes around Paris with others who are equally sad and screwed up. The only exception is his girlfriend (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and even she admits she likes him better when they're apart. So it's kind of a downer, but it's not the worst French movie in which unhappy characters brood and smoke cigarettes. I don't know what movie that would be, and I hope I never find out.
