We’ve yet to be summoned to a solicitor’s office for the reading of a will in the hope of inheriting an untold fortune. Although we’re sure that there are two children in Montecito unaware that they will inherit little more than thousands of pots of past their sell by date jam, recordings of a failed podcast and some dog eared photos of their mothers days as a yacht girl. But in the vaguely titled ‘Colours of Time’ the film sees several dozen strangers called to a meeting in Paris to discuss the abandoned property of the late Adele Meunier (Suzanna Lindon) a relative of which none of those called to the meeting were aware.
Those Colours of Time….
Calling that meeting is a business conglomerate wanting to flatten the place to build a shopping mall and car park but to do so they are legally obliged to request four representatives to open up the cottage and list the contents. So the job falls to content creator Seb (Abraham Wapler), business woman Celine (Julia Paiton) about to retire school teacher Abdel (Zinedine Soualem – a shoo-in for any John Turturro biopic) and beekeeper Guy (Vincent Macaigne). The cottage has fallen into disrepair and what they find inside is almost the exact opposite of what our Editor keeps in his allotment shed comprising as it does of unpaid bills and back issues of Health and Efficiency (‘You’re fired!’ – Ed). Strewn around the empty cottage are a load of old photos and letters but most unexpectedly an Impressionist painting that could be a lost masterpiece.
It’s where the film now splits into parallel stories with flashbacks to Adele’s story where, having lived with her grandmother who has now passed away, she goes to Paris to find her mother Odette (Sara Giraudeau) who has carved a career in a sort of faded Paris Belle Epoque house a kind of 1895 version of TV’s Love Island except here they call it what it is: a brothel.
So the film flits back and fore with at times some clever transitions as Adele’s story is revealed bit by bit that is counter balanced by her modern day ascendants anecdotal episodes that takes in a developing romance between Celine & Guy, Abdel’s trepidation about retirement and Seb’s own romantic quandry between a vacuous influencer and a talented young aspiring musician that agrees to film content.
It’s a gentle and cosy film where the friendships and relationships that develop are at the centre of all this. It’s an enjoyable exploration as the story unfolds as Adele finds out who her father is in what is a gently reassuring film.
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Here’s the Colours of Time trailer….
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