27th Toronto International Film
Festival
Seattle International Film Festival 2003
Rose (Juliette Binoche) is a
scatterbrained make-up artist whose greatest canvas is herself.
With hair that's lacquered and a face painted to the nines,
she totters around a terminal in Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport in
ankle-threatening high heels in search of a flight to Mexico and --
possibly -- a new life away from her abusive boyfriend, Serge (Sergi
Lopez). Unfortunately,
her long-distance and on-going argument with Serge is cut short when
her cell phone meets with a ghastly end.
Desperate to finish it, Rose spots Félix, (Jean Reno), who,
somewhat reluctantly, offers to lend her his cell in order for her
to finish the call. Since
the airport is shut down due to bad weather and all incoming and
outgoing flights have been cancelled, it might be inevitable that
Rose and Félix might encounter each other again.
Instead, they encounter each other again, and again, and
again, each time learning more about the other than perhaps each
might want to know. She's
a child of Communist parents who still cries when she hears L'Internationale;
he's a thrice-divorced former chef, now head of a frozen-food
company, whose own current relationship is in questionable
condition. Is this a
case of opposites attracting?
Review by Carrie Gorringe · Nitrate Online
