The Colors of Time: a review of the film by Cédric Klapish

THE COLORS OF THE TIME
Type: comedy ✦✦✦
Direction: Cédric Klapish. With Suzanne Lindon, Julia Piaton, Vinvent Macaigne

Of the 30 heirs summoned to decide the fate of a farmhouse in Normandylong abandoned, four distant cousins ​​took charge of investigating the property and Adèle Meunier, born in 1873, who had lived there.

Klapisch zigzags between generations and between the present (from a sociological comedy: the beekeeper, the creative, the teacher) and the world of artists of 19th century Montmartre, cradle of Impressionism, following the path of a young woman who leaves the province for the capital in search of her roots. Just as his descendants will do, more than a century later.

Beautiful period reconstruction, where the picturesque (the arrival of electricity at the Opéra) works more than the political discoursenot exactly in the style of the author of Spanish apartment. Which, however, confirms that it knows how to handle its own themes: praise of youth and family ties. Seen in Cannes.

LEGEND
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ excellent
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece