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.
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Ricky Chiang