I saw this film as the last of the films I watched in the French Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. It, like the other films I saw, was a very personal film. I think it was also a very feminist inflected film. The ending revealed how the main character finally had enough of her brow beating male husband and left him for good.
The film started out like a typical romcom or marriage dramedy. I guess it was a combination of the two or, perhaps, it evolved in it's genre from something lighthearted and comedic, poking fun at the funny things in married life. Yet, ultimately, it ends on a bittersweet note. After refusing to come back to civilization, the main character stays in the woods for several days. Her husband doesn't make much of an effort to bring her back. Doesn't beg and plead for her to return. Eventually, he gets in contact with the authorities, but by then, she is long gone.
In a scene which I thought was symbolic of the situation of the main character a young deer gets caught in a ditch. The main character helps the deer out of the ditch. I thought the deer symbolized the woman in the marriage. She was caught in a ditch, then set free.
This film was decent. It was a micro film. It showed the liberation of a woman who had a husband who constantly demeaned her. Everything she did her commented negatively on. At one point in the film I was saying to myself, why doesn't she just leave him? Why does she put up with him? She finally gets up the courage and does so by the end of the film. It shows that ending a marriage is still hard. It is difficult to come to grips with a situation which is just not working. Not a bad film.
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