Director Robert Guédiguian returns to his favorite milieu — working-class Marseilles — for this somewhat crowded, multi-character drama that reveals a vivid cross-section of the city's inhabitants but fails to live up to the director's high ambitions. Co-written by Guédiguian and his longtime collaborator Jean-Louis Milesi, the film is structured around a series of loosely interrelated storylines. After an exhausting shift at the local fishery, Michele (Ariane Ascaride) returns to her dreary hilltop housing block at the crack of dawn to find her teenaged daughter, Fiona (Julie-Marie Parmentier), sneaking in the front door. Michele knows Fiona is s...
Released:
2001
Rated:
n/a
Length:
132 mins