A curate's egg of a movie: often lauded beyond its station , "confidences pour confidences " is a confused family chronicle ,with a sometimes disjointed screenplay ; also handicapped by caricatures : the grumpy military man,the fiancé who stammers,the lover afraid of his wife ;besides it's hard to believe that the heroine becomes a schoolteacher ,out of the blue,after solely studying shorthand typing. The same goes for the implausible scene of the rich kid's desirable mansion where his prim dad welcomes the pregnant girl.
On the plus side , Daniel Ceccaldi as the father overtaken by events but always keeping his composure and Henri Crémieux as the wise grandpa , stand out; the depiction of a grocery shop in the early sixties is marvelously precise with witty lines ( "giving credit attracts the clientèle /yes ,the clientèle short of the readies")The scene in which ,in front of a gendarme, mother thinks it's the dog they've found ,is a good moment too.
A dog that played a supporting part in Claude Lelouch's "un homme et une femme" : an extract of the famous movie is shown. Lelouch in the flesh, appears too.
6.6Plot summary
To see more clearly in herself, one evening of depression, Brigitte remembers her childhood: the Fifties come back at a gallop. She sees herself at seven years old in the apartment of Courbevoie where her mother holds a grocery store and where her father, Emile, "pulls his laziness". It must be said that life is not rosy: parents, three daughters and a dog in the same room. Brigitte soon leaves the suburbs for the countryside where her grandfather teaches her about life. Meanwhile, her parents move to Paris; Emile has become a salesman and his wife has given up the grocery store. Returning to the capital, Brigitte witnesses the sentimental problems of her sister Pierrette, and Florence's beginnings in the career of advertising films. Ten years later, Brigitte meets François, whom she rejects after he gives birth to a child. Florence marries a penniless son from a good family; even her mother runs away in love with a violinist, while Emile gnaws at his misogynistic and vulgar cousin Gabriel.
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