Private Fears in Public Places

Private Fears in Public Places2006

U Film · Drama, Romance · 120 min · Nov 22, 2006 European Film Academy Critics Award2007 +1 Awards: wins 1, nominations 1
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For six strangers in search of love, the City of Lights can be a very lonely place.

Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the bartender's best patron, an ex-soldier who's lost his moorings while his fiancée looks for a large flat for them; and, the estate agent's much younger sister, who answers personals and waits in cafés with a red flower pinned on her jacket. Will any connect? Can open hearts trump fears?

Alain Resnais
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Jonathan Rosenbaum · Chicago Reader 100.00/100.00

Alain Resnais' 2006 adaptation of a British play by Alan Ayckbourn is a world apart from his earlier Ayckbourn adaptation, "Smoking/No Smoking"; that film tried to be as "English" as possible. But this time Resnais looks for precise French equivalents to British culture, and what emerges is one of his most personal works, intermittently recalling the melancholy "Muriel" and "Providence."

鬼腳七 3.00/5.00

哪里有什么归属啊，叔本华早就说了，孤独才是人生的本质。

Kevin Thomas · Los Angeles Times 100.00/100.00

A masterpiece by any measure, is fresh, immediate and contemporary, but its wintry yet warm perspective is suffused with the wisdom and experience of a great filmmaker who turns 85 on June 2.

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