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Bright Days Ahead

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Bright Days Ahead

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Romantic drama starring Fanny Ardant, Laurent Lafitte and Patrick Chesnais. After she retires from her job as a dentist, married mother Caroline is looking forward to spending time doing what she wants. However, her daughters have other ideas, and sign her up to a series of evening classes. Although initially unwilling to go, Caroline changes her mind after a much younger man takes a shine to her.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

David Parkinson

A fine performance from Fanny Ardant elevates Marion Vernoux's intriguing if rarely riveting study of late-life passion. Retired from the dental practice she ran on the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coast with husband Patrick Chesnais, Ardant feels piqued when her daughters enrol her in a seniors activity club. However, once there she embarks upon a reckless fling with 30-something computer tutor Laurent Lafitte, a slacker who lacks social graces and any concept of commitment. Ardant captures the pride of a woman in her 60s who's determined to prove life is still worth living, effortlessly combining glamour and vulnerability. But while co-writer Fanny Chesnel's adaptation of her novel Une jeune fille aux cheveux blancs offers some shrewd insights into the way society treats its elders, the characterisation is thin and the plotline comes perilously close to soap opera, especially when the affair is discovered and Ardant has to face the consequences of her folly. Bright Days Ahead is slickly staged and luminously photographed, but it's also short on drama, depth and danger.

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6.3/10

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Cast

rolenameCaroline ("Caro")Fanny ArdantJulienLaurent LaffitePhilippePatrick ChesnaisRogerJean-François StéveninChantalFanny CottençonSylvianeCatherine LachensJackyAlain CauchiJocelyne ("Jojo")Marie RivièreHuguesMarc ChapiteauPaulFéodor Atkine

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rolenameDirectorMarion Vernoux

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Theatrical distributor

Picturehouse

Released on

2014-06-20

Languages

English | French

Guidance

Swearing, sex scenes, nudity.

Formats

Colour

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