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Match Point (2005)
Extra-marital affairs are never without risks
This is a great movie It is about the risk of a married man (into a wealthy family)having an affair with a young, much poorer, and aspiring actress. The affair, like most other affairs, starts off with pure passion, lust and wild sex, not love, before the man is married and before she is separated from her rich boyfriend. After the marriage, he is bored with his rich wife sexually and is tempted by her and he rekindles the affair with the now-single actress. He loves his wife and the luxurious life she brings to him through her rich father but he enjoys the wild lusty sex with her. So he does not want to leave his wife for her until an important life event happens that tests the strength and the foundation of the affair and his love for his wife and his lust ( ?? love) for his mistress. The movie shows what a man is forced to do to resolve this dilemma.
I think this movie warns those who are married NOT to have sexual affairs as most affairs end up tragically especially if the affair is conducted between a married man and an unmarried, poorer loser........unless you have the audacity to leave your spouse, children and comfortable life for the sake of love for the person you are having an affair with. Sadly most affairs start off by lust and passion and not love and as most people have human feelings, one-night stands and short-term affairs often create more feelings and lead to something more and they cannot stand the test of time and important and tragic life events unless the two partners really love each other.
Une femme française (1995)
A movie that glorifies a woman's multiple infidelities
A FRENCH WOMAN was advertised as the story of a woman drifting between desire and convention on a journey of self discovery but to me it was an attempt by the Director/ Narrator to glorify and exonerate his mother's (=main protagonist) intrinsic sluttishness and huge egos leading to multiple infidelities. Compared to the other great French woman in the movie A VERY LONG ENGEGEMENT, who, against all odds, embarks on a relentless, painful, long and often frustrating ordeal to find out the truth about her supposedly dead boyfriend, the protagonist in this movie would be seen as nothing worse than a sluttish whore.
First, after her husband comes back from the war, he correctly says to her," we are not heroes and you are a whore". Then she says "take me wherever you go, I have so much love to give you". After her husband forgives her and accepts her excuse for having multiple affairs with numerous men (instead of one affair with one man if she is a woman who believes in true love and not lust and sex) as "to give me the strength to keep going on", she goes on and bears the infant twins her husband does not father and she breaks her promise and has an affair with a German industrialist in Berlin.
Then when the German lover tells her that he wants a family with kids and does not want to wait anymore for her and just becomes her sexual lover, she becomes cool and tells her son, "He is a nobody" when her son asks her who the man is.
Then after the lover leaves her, she has multiple affairs with other men again until her death.
I am sure if she leaves her husband and marries the German boyfriend, she will have affairs with other men again. As the saying goes, "once a whore, always a whore".
So I think the movie should glorify the poor husband's greatness in repeatedly forgiving her, taking her back despite her numerous infidelities, treating the twins like his own, staying in the marriage for the sake of their children and telling friends that the big scar at the back of his back is from a shot in the war with the Vietnamese enemy instead of from his own wife, doing that in an attempt to save her German lover from being bashed to death by him.
I am sure few men in the world can be as forgiving as her husband to a constantly unfaithful wife.
At the end of the movie, the narrator states, "That day, Loius wondered whether it was love that killed Jeanne." I would call it lust and sluttishness not love and I feel sympathy for Louis and admire his greatness as a husband and father and I feel nothing but disgust and sadness for the Director's efforts to portray the egoistic sluttish woman's infidelities as self discovery.