Les Olympiades

It's pure honey 🍯 of an adventure into what can be shared and what is not for sharing in relationships in a laconic suburb of life and Paris, testing the limits of groking and groping for the comfort of the bourgeoisie and the meaning of commuting.

Is that all there is, my friends....it is shot as intimately as it feels....and it is impossible to put down once you experience a bit of questing sensuality.

I was very disappointed with this movie. I like Audiard's work, he has made some excellent movies, and I was looking forward to watch this, but I found it empty, with all its supposed sexiness feeling quite shallow. The actors are ok, but their characters are superficial, and I couldn't care less of what happens to them. Even the black and white is not pretty. I think it was selected for Cannes 2021 only because of the reputation of Audiard.

It's excruciating having on your laptop the video file for a film you're dying to see but not having the subtitles for it. - 2022 goal: learn French. - Today, someone, God bless his soul, uploaded the English subs for the movie, and I finally got to watch it.

A beautiful film! A candid and unreserved look at love life in the early thirties, portrayed brilliantly by an - Merlant excluded - unknown cast. What I loved the most here was how the film floats around from one character to the other, detaching you in a way from them, but that worked so well in creating a cozy, calming atmosphere where you can enjoy the movie without getting too emotionally attached with any of them. Audiard takes you and puts you into a place where you can't "get hurt" by connecting too deeply or caring a lot for a character while at the same time telling a story that's supposed to do that to you. That alone, I think it's incredible to pull off, but Jacques managed to do so with flying colors. Here we got, essentially, the tearless, color-deprived version of last year's 'The Worst Person in the World' (plus through some "online dating" perspective into it). 'Paris, 13th District' was a comfortable watch for me, and I think it's a film I'll revisit because, again, I found it extremely relaxing. And with that, I don't mean there weren't moments I didn't have an emotional response to what I saw. The emotions are there, especially in the end. They just don't hit you like Hiroshima.

At first, I thought it was going to be a threesome movie like "LOVE" I was wrong, but it felt good. I liked it. I think it was better than Hollywood melodramas!

I liked the way it was made. B&W shots, simple soundtracks, and the storyline.

French director Jacques Audiard tells a heartwarming story of lovers finding their paths in Paris. The film follows a handful of characters searching for happiness in the French capital. The sensual warmth of the sex scenes is intimate. The script is written by Audiard together with Céline Sciamma and Léa Mysius. It's loosely based on three stories in the cartoonist Adrian Tomine's collection "Killing and Dying." It isn't a literal adaptation, though there are points of connection with the original work. What unites them is how lives abruptly change and even shatter in a single moment, like in a kiss.