Voyages en Italie

The everyday life of a couple on a trip to Italy, with its problems of visiting and living together. Sophie Letourneur, the director and main female character, composes and creates a bitter-sweet chronicle recounting the little moments of this father and mother in parentheses: the children are always off-screen, in the apartment at home, on the phone when they're on vacation. It's a film without children, in other words, about the couple.

It's a very interesting film, because it shows that it's possible to tell a simple story, with many small dramatic stakes and a certain realism, and thus build something solid and a narrative over time, without being revolutionary, but with a certain passion for knowing how this story will evolve between these two characters.

It's a natural film, or naturalistic, whatever, about the life of a couple on vacation here in Italy. The choice of what to visit, how to get around, whether or not to go for a walk, and the challenges they set each other. For example. It doesn't sound thrilling, but it works, and the acting duo carry the film.