Synopsis
La Belle Époque (2019) is a French dramedy by Nicolas Bedos that you can watch online on iFILM. Victor is a sixtysomething cartoonist left behind by the digital age, stuck in a marriage that has curdled into contempt. His wife can barely stand the sight of him anymore.
A peculiar company offers a way out: it reconstructs any moment in history for paying clients, down to the sets, costumes and scripted dialogue. Victor picks one night only, a smoky Lyon café in 1974, the evening he first met the love of his life. A director named Antoine and the actress playing his young sweetheart stage it for him again and again, until the line between paid performance and real feeling starts to blur.
Daniel Auteuil anchors the film with weary charm, Fanny Ardant plays his wife, and Guillaume Canet and Doria Tillier are the couple running the elaborate illusion. Bedos turns nostalgia into a sharp comedy about the danger of romanticizing your own memory. It picked up three César Awards. A great pick for anyone who loves talky, bittersweet French cinema. Stream La Belle Époque (2019) online on iFILM.
Starring
Comments 0