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With Love...From The Age Of Reason (2010/First Run Features DVD)


Picture: B- Sound: C Extras: D Film: B+



Margaret (Sophie Marceau) is a successful career business woman. Everything in her life is scheduled in her job, from meetings, outfits, business dinners to even having pre-scheduled sex, but everything is turned upside down when she receives a letter from herself when she was seven, reminding her of her childhood dreams, hopes and ambitions. She begins to question her 'raison d'etre'. To get where she is now, did she give up too much?


In Yann Samuell's With Love... From The Age Of Reason (2010), strong independent Margaret negotiates million dollar business deals and works with societies wealthy and rich, portrayed very well and densely with Marceau more than convincing in the role until cracks suddenly develop and she is suddenly reminded out of how little her family once had, the dreams she shared with her brother, and even her first love... how poor they were and yet still full of joy and happiness. She then goes on a journey to her past to find the happiness she lost and it works well thanks to the screenplay by Samuell, which is well written.


This is also an age old tale of money and happiness, the idea of money can't buy happiness. For the wealthy and rich, it seems like the more money they have the less happiness they have. The moral of these types of stories is in the pursuit of money, people forget how to live life and what is really important in life. The character at first denies the letters, but then realizes how empty her current life is, that a lie, but they manage to dodge some of the cliches and that is not easy.


The anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 image is not bad, has some good color throughout, is a decent use of the scope frame and is not too soft considering the format, but the lossy Dolby Digital sound (though subtitles make this less of a problem) is on the weak side. There are no extras.



- Ricky Chiang


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