They find yourself at a small, rustic inn. Completely happy wherever she is, Magalie dances joyfully on the patio (and on a tabletop), the place the opposite friends are having dinner. In a really candy second, as Blandine watches, she sees Magalie not as she is now however as she was once they had been buddies, imagining dancing along with her as they did in center faculty.
What elevates this movie above the same old trip-gone-wrong storyline is its mild exploration of what hyperlinks the 2 girls past their historical past. This can be a film about processing grief: Blandine over the lack of her husband and the life she thought she would have; Magalie over early trauma briefly touched on as the ladies lastly discuss what drove them aside. There is a component of frantic denial in Magalie’s ebullience and extended self-pity in Blandine’s unwillingness to maneuver ahead. This comes along with the introduction of a 3rd character, who goes by the chosen title Bijou (jewel), performed by the British actress Kristin Scott Thomas (“4 Weddings and a Funeral”).
Bijou is Magalie’s buddy. When the vacationers discover themselves caught on one more island that isn’t Amorgos, Bijou welcomes them into the attractive house she shares with a Greek artist named Dimitris (Panos Koronis). She shares Magalie’s view that each minute of life ought to be enjoyable, however in a quieter second, Blandine learns that there’s loss and fear beneath Bijou’s embrace of enjoyment. And there may be compassion as properly. Scott Thomas does wonders with this function, making a full, advanced character and including depth to the storyline. It’s as a lot as a consequence of what she sees in Bijou as within the amassed frustrations of the journey that lead Blandine (considerably re-named by Bijou) to start to be sincere about her emotions towards Magalie. 3 times within the movie, we see how uncomfortable Blandine is with nudity, her personal and anybody else’s. However she learns that refusing to look left her lacking essential info and a possibility for intimacy, not romantic or sexual, only a shared understanding with one other particular person. Magalie learns there may be worth in slowing down to concentrate to another person. In these attractive settings, away from house, they present us {that a} journey crammed with surprising detours can find yourself in a vacation spot higher than the one we plan.
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