If you can return to any era, the deadline is one night.
Which era would you choose?
I believe that many people have dreams about "crossing", unfortunately before the invention of the time machine, crossing can only exist in fiction and fantasy.
But there are a group of people who see the business opportunity from "crossing", and they customize the crossing tour for customers.
With powerful casts, props and sets, whether it's World War II or the Middle Ages, they allow you to experience an immersive journey through.
Doesn't that sound a bit heartwarming?
The movie I'm going to introduce today is about a personally customized journey through—
Good dreams for a day trip
The Belle Epoque
Director: Nicholas Beddos
Writers: Nicholas Beddos
Starring: Daniel Otei / Giyom Cane / Doria Tillier
Release: 2019-05-20 (Festival de Cannes) / 2019-11-06 (France)
Runtime: 115 minutes
Director Nicholas Beddos, after the self-written and self-directed "Adelmans" harvested high reputation, he once again launched the self-written and self-directed production "Good Dream Day Trip".
The heroine is still played by Dolia Tillier.
Directed by Nicholas Bedos and heroine Doria Tillier
The theme of realizing the dream is indeed not limited by culture and geography, and the film is also jokingly called the French version of "Party A and Party B".
The same story that the people like to hear is not only full of jokes, but also very ironic.
At the beginning of the film, there is a reversal and reversal, which catches people off guard.
At a dinner party, which was clearly a medieval aristocrat, people complimented the king with laughter.
Riding on the wine, they also humiliated the black servants for fun.
Suddenly, a group of masked bandits with guns burst in.
If you hadn't read the synopsis in advance, it might have been a bit confusing to see this.
Isn't this ancient, how can there be a gun?
Then the bandits began to shoot, and some people exclaimed: I am an actor!
Oh, it turns out that this medieval dinner is acting.
At this time, someone pointed to the actor of the "king" and said: He is a customer, he has money!
Oh, and turns out this is cosplay for a paid experience?
The black brother, who had been humiliated before, suddenly stepped forward and joined the ranks of the bandits.
After a shot, the building was also neatly set on fire.
As soon as the camera pans, the team behind the scenes appears.
It turned out to be a short film made by a company that privately customized a traversal experience for customers.
I don't know when it started, nostalgia became a good business.
Many people are willing to pay a high price and travel back in time, even for one day.
And most of these nostalgic people are a group of people who have suffered from midlife crisis.
The loss of reality makes them reminisce about the beautiful youth.
In this movie, the protagonist Victor encounters an old age crisis that is more desperate than the mid-life crisis .
Jobs have been eliminated by changing times, marriages have been in crisis, and unemployment has been possible for many years.
Decades ago, Victor was an illustrator with pictures for magazines.
But with the advent of the Internet era, magazines became websites and his illustrations were no longer needed.
From then on, Victor collapsed and fell into a stagnant life.
Vido is a man who resists the changing times from the bottom of his heart, and he doesn't even use a smartphone.
Vido's wife, Marianna, is a person who strives to keep up with the times.
She will actively try the latest electronics.
The differences in their life philosophies are getting bigger and bigger, and they are gradually drifting apart.
Finally, one day, the couple broke out into a long-suppressed quarrel.
Victor was kicked out of the house by his wife.
Desperate, Victor remembered that his son had given him an invitation to travel in time and space.
Because the owner of this dream company is his son's hair, so there is such a free experience opportunity.
Victor took the invitation letter given to him by his son and came to the Dream Company.
He hopes to go back to May 16, 1974, and revisit the time when he and his wife, Marianna, first met.
He provided his own comic that recorded the scene at that time to the Dream Company as the material for scene restoration.
When the staff asked him why he liked the 70s,
Victor said: It was much simpler then... People don't play with their phones when they communicate with each other, and besides, I'm still very young.
Dream Company has its own filming base, where they recreate a street that Vieux used to visit when he was young.
The bar, the hostel, everything is still the way Vido remembers.
In the hotel in his memory, Vido seems to have regained his old days.
He shaved his scruffy beard in front of the mirror, trying to regain his youth.
On the other side of the mirror, the team of The Dream Company is also observing him with great interest.
All of this is strikingly similar to "Truman's World".
May 16, 1974, was a special day for Wido.
Because this is the day he meets Marianne, a resentful couple who has tormented each other for decades.
But at that time, there was only sweet love between them.
Dream Company recruited actress Margot to play the young Marianne.
Behind the bar counter of the bar, there are the staff of the Dream Company.
Seeing That Victor come in, the actors immediately lit a cigarette, setting off the psychedelic decadence of the 70s.
Victor walked into the bar of his memory.
Although he was surrounded by extras, and when he looked up, he could see the spotlights on the set-up booth, reminding him that all this was fake, but he still felt a little kind.
Victor once drew this day into a detailed caricature.
The next plot is almost a reenactment of his comics.
The young and reckless Marianne rose from memory and reappeared before him.
After all, it is a scene restoration, and there is still a discrepancy with the real memory.
From time to time, Vido corrects the actor's lines, and at this time he does not have a real immersion experience.
But the rebellious personality of the actress in front of her is indeed somewhat similar to that of Mariana when she was young.
This left Vido in a trance between falsehood and reality.
In Victor's narration, the audience also gradually understands why he loves the woman who threw him out of the house.
The young Mariana was wild and beautiful, with many suitors, but she chose the illustrator Vido, who was not outstanding.
He also supported his painting career in the years that followed, helping him to get rid of alcoholism and make his life more colorful.
Despite the poor immersion experience, the encounter with the young actress Margot made Victor feel a long-lost youth.
Back at the hotel, Vido is like a teenager who has just opened his heart.
Inspired, he picked up his brush and turned it all into a comic.
However, Vido only had one day of dream fulfillment.
The next day, the hotel reception informed him of the end of the experience.
If you still want to continue to renew the fee, see this can't help but sigh the routine ah routine!
The price of continuing the dream experience is quite high, costing thousands of euros in 2 days.
This is a significant number for Victor, who has been unemployed for many years.
But in order to see the young Marianne again, he agreed to renew the fee.
He had to ask his son for money to pay for the cost.
After renewing the fee, Vido can continue to immerse himself in the world carefully arranged for him.
Young and beautiful Marianna and the 70s, full of youthful memories, Wido picks up paintbrushes and records everything with cartoons, although they are so unreal.
As actress Margot and Victor became more acquainted, she told Victor that she was really Polish and had been learning piano since childhood.
Her dream was to become a pianist, and to be an actress was just forced to make a living.
And Victor finds himself falling in love with Margot.
In this journey of time created for him, they interacted like a real couple.
Wido uses a paintbrush to record the bits and pieces of the two.
In order to continue to experience this passionate and inspired life, Vido had to invest a steady stream of money.
In the end, he even sold the property to pay the high cost.
However, when he invested a huge amount of money again, he found that the actress who played Marianne had changed.
The new Marianne in front of her was not the Margot that haunted her before.
After questioning, it was told that Margot was no longer in charge of the project.
Vido sells the property to raise money, that is, he can stay with her in this virtual and real scene.
After the substitution, everything became meaningless.
At this time, The obsession in Vido's heart is no longer Marianne, but Margot.
Victor tried his best to find out Margot's home address.
But the Margot he found at the door was the same as the two of them, and she claimed to have been married and had children.
As for the Polish pianist's personality, it is only part of the acting.
In fact, all this is a play within a play, and the screenwriter is directing the actors through headphones in the car not far away.
His purpose is to make Vido dead set on actresses.
Then, the director used the headphones to direct Margot and said a bitter word to Victor.
Hopefully he will return to real life and accept his wife Mariana:
"We can't control everything, we have to accept disappointment, criticism, and accept that the expected is no longer dazzling."
Otherwise we can only live in the first encounter, we have typed the draft, but lost the real life. ”
However, this bowl of chicken soup did not comfort Victor, and everything could not go back.
Before leaving, Vido confessed to Margot: I am in love with you.
Of course, he also knew that this was just wishful thinking.
Shattered, Victor ends his journey of time and returns to real life.
He told his wife everything that had happened, including him and Margot.
Marianne flipped through his cartoons and became jealous of her husband's romantic journey through time.
She had a bold idea.
She asked Davido to return to the restored bar and repeat the scene of the day of the encounter.
And this time it was Margaret herself who starred in Margaret.
The two returned to this once familiar scene, but the atmosphere was a bit far-fetched.
Marianna wanted to fix the old ones, but Vido knew very well that this wouldn't change her boredom with him.
Nor could it soothe the harm she had done to him in the past.
Before leaving, Marianne deliberately left her scarf as she had done years ago.
According to the original plot, Vido should pick up the scarf and chase it.
However, Vido did not get up.
In a trance, he seemed to see Margot sitting not far away smiling at him.
Now it is no longer Marianna who makes him feel love, but this actress.
At the end of the movie, there is no Hollywood-style warm reunion, and Victor and Marianne have not repaired the old good.
Cloaked in romantic filters, the film is actually about the cruelty of time.
Victor, who originally expected to relive his dream, finally discovered the fragility of love.
Not only was Marianna tired of him, but he wasn't.
Victor smiled self-deprecatingly, and if his current fascination with Margot had come true, he and his wife would repeat the same mistakes he and his wife had made many years later.
Too many movies are celebrating the romantic beauty of love, but "Good Dreams Day Trip" does the opposite.
A good movie, not necessarily like delicious candy to let people enjoy a short period of sweetness, make people reminisce, cause people to think, is also the charm of the movie.
Its fancy packaging almost makes people forget that it is a French movie.
This is, after all, a country that makes philosophy a compulsory subject in high school.
French cinema often conceals a kind of profundity that is different from Hollywood, and this film uses absurd and romantic stories to expose the cruelty of love and the complexity of human nature.
The disillusionment of "Good Dream Day Trip", hidden behind the romantic filter, is actually asking everyone questions -
What is love?
Why did it arise and why did it die?
*This article is written by RAMA