Madly in Life

Film - 2020

8,0

41.5K

Madly in Life it's a movie with Jo Deseure, Jean Le Peltier, Lucie Debay, Gilles Remiche Full cast. Directed by Raphaël Balboni, Ann Sirot. Original title Une vie démente, runtime 87 minutes. Genres Drama, Commedia.

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Emiliano Baglio

A matter of a moment; Alex (Jean Le Peltier) asks his mother Suzanne (the amazing Jo Deseure) to pass him the colander and the woman hesitates for a few seconds. The screen goes black, with one of those frequent ellipses that characterize Raphaël Balboni and Ann Sirot's debut film, and it is Noémie (Lucie Debay), speaking with her partner Alex, who reconstructs for us what happened next, and it is always she who is the first to notice that perhaps something is not going right. How do you describe the slow decay of the mind without falling into the rhetorical and the pathetic? The crazy life is a perfect answer to this question because, despite the theme addressed and the moments that throw Suzanne's drift in our faces, the two Belgian directors treat everything with lightness, managing on several occasions to get laughs from the audience. First of all thanks to the character of Suzanne, a nice sprightly and irrepressible old lady, full of vitality, depicted in her little quirks and in her irrepressible desire to live free as she always has. Her slow shipwreck, which often breaks the heart, is approached with delicacy and an eye full of affection and love so much so that one wonders in the end whether there isn't an autobiographical experience behind it given how dementia is depicted, why is this what we're talking about. The same amused look is found in many other sequences, first of all the one that illustrates the irresistible conversations of Alex and Noémie with a series of unlikely carers among whom Kevin (Gilles Remiche) will be chosen, a lover of Vivaldi himself who adores Suzanne but turned into a metal version. Clearly while Suzanne becomes a child again, losing her inhibitory brakes and becoming increasingly obsessed with her own foibles, in parallel the life of Alex and Noémie also risks falling into a thousand pieces Read all

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Alex and Noémie would like to have a child. But their plans are turned upside down when Alex's mother, Suzanne, has contracted "semantic dementia", a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects her behavior.