Our dark room expert will advise you "Franckie", worn by Isabelle Huppert.

Frankie is a great French actress, as her performer Isabelle Huppert. She is seriously ill and decides to reunite her relatives in the seaside town of Sintra in Portugal, because she will die. And at the winding alleyways, hotel rooms, woods and beaches, she exchanges her husband, her ex-husband, with a movie costume designer who has become her friend, with her children too.

A twilight movie. It is all the delicacy of the cinema of Ira Sachscharrier, who had already made the beautiful Brooklyn Village, that to stir human feelings in nuance, with a certain melancholy, but without pity. Did Isabelle Huppert think about her own life during the shoot? "Not at all," the actress replies. "It's the power of the cinema to convey sensations to the audience as I was thinking about what I had eaten in the morning, and I do not think the actors were as wide-ranging as the film transmits, "she continues.

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And even if Frankie tells the last moments of a life, it is not for all that a sad film. On the contrary, it is a twilight film, which questions us about our relationship to death and what we would like our loved ones to retain from us. Poignant despite, it must be recognized, a few lengths.