The Restless

Film - 2021
7,0
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The Restless it's a movie with Leïla Bekhti, Damien Bonnard, Gabriel Merz Chammah, Luc Schiltz, Larisa Faber Full cast. Directed by Joachim Lafosse. Original title Les Intranquilles, runtime 117 minutes. Genre Drama.
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Review of  Riccardo Simoncini Riccardo Simoncini
What does it mean to suffer from bipolar disorder? Joachim Lafosse returns to deconstruct the family unit from the inside, with his true, sincere, but raw and realistic approach, in representing a context of extreme suffering. So what to do when your husband or father suffers from such a disabling disorder? Especially if he denies it, if he doesn't take his medicine, if he constantly enters into that unstoppable circuit from which it is impossible to escape, which leads you to be hyperactive one moment and unable to stand up in another. Damien is an artist, he paints canvases without stop, but, we soon understand, behind those apparently inexhaustible energies lies a much greater exhaustion, a symptomatic manifestation of his mental disorder. An exhaustion that envelops, in addition to him, his wife and son, who love him and worry about him, but who in that condition risk seeing any form of understanding falter. In fact, the nights follow one another sleeplessly, because Damien is awake, Damien is not finds himself, Damien wants to do a thousand things even if he doesn't have the strength. And then in the end he ends up in hospital, suddenly depressing all his creative inspiration. The director describes the painter's daily life with meticulous precision, certainly taking on a story with a high autobiographical component (his father was a photographer suffering from bipolar). And the privileged point of view is in fact that of little Amine, whose "no more dad" still resonates as painful as stab wounds when his father compulsively hugs his son during his manic phases. The family's life (with masterful interpretations by both Damien Manivel and Leïla Bekhti) transforms into an exhausting tour de force, where the exhaustion of crises alternates with the fear of relapses. Art goes from therapeutic to full-blown manifestation of the suffering of psychosis , albeit a "safe" environment through which to transform the disorder into something socially Read all
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Leila and Damien struggle with his bipolar disorder.

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