TonOn the surface, the break in the title is the annoying broken arm suffered by the boring protagonist Raf (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi). Raf is a comic artist in Paris who has experienced traumatic and traumatic experiences with her partner Julie. A possibly metaphorical slip and fall after a breakup (Marina Foyce). But there is another metaphorical level.
Raf was taken to the hospital. The hospital was in chaos. He waited at A&E for 8 to 10 hours because all the anti-Macron people Yellow vest The demonstrators were beaten, gassed and shot dead by the police. This is the same demonstration that Julia’s teenage son is doing, and the FaceTime call he gave to his mother must not be reassuring. The patients in this M*A*S*H-style war zone hospital waiting room include a truck driver Yann (Pio Marmaï), who lives on the edge of poverty and enters the normal waiting room with the grumpy Raf in the dirty waiting room. It is the kind of arrogant liberal centrist Parisian elite who supports Macron. Raf asked if he would Le Pen And the argument is nuclear. At the same time, super-stressed hospital staff are doing their best-but perhaps France itself is torn apart.
This is a well-meaning movie with some straightforward performances, although there are quite a few actors yelling, Bruni Tedski’s smiling face is sometimes affected. In the end it looks like a special live broadcast of Holby City, and this movie can never resist a bit of iconic meaning. When a little bit of the ceiling suddenly collapsed in the dust and scattered wires, the patients (and moviegoers) all jumped out. “Medical is breaking down!” someone said.
Movies like this must win or lose based on interpersonal relationships and performances with chaos as the foreground. There was a wonderful moment when Julia recognized an old school her age, and her daughter was brutally beaten by the police during the demonstration.
Yann has some powerful lines. But the terrible inevitability of Raf and Yann becoming partners and Raf and Julia finally reuniting has a heavy impact on the movie. Really, what’s the point of all this?
