New start is a comedy-drama about life as a couple after 30 years of living together. This film could also have been titled “Diane’s mid-life crisis”, who, at 53, no longer knows who she is and what she wants, both personally and professionally.
Diane (Karin Viard) is lost, bored, and no longer feels involved. She wants to have new experiences, which surprises Alain (Franck Dubosc), who is very happy with this new freedom without the children. He then decides to part ways with Diane, telling himself that she will come back soon…
There is a lot of tenderness and sincerity in this film, which we appreciate despite the awkwardness of a script which sometimes lacks originality and which also gives in to the heaviness of certain lines.
The strength of the feature film is the duo formed by Karin Viard and Franck Dubosc, who play a very complicit couple. It’s good to see Franck Dubosc in a more serious register. Some scenes are very funny, touching and full of truth about the couple, where, even after 30 years of living together, as Alain says, we can still vibrate for the other. “I am passionate about you and when you are not here, I miss you, and I vibrate,” he says. Karin Viard excels in the role of this journalist whose career has been put on the shelf, who tests solo life, dating sites and drunken evenings with younger people!
We never get bored in this second film directed by Philippe Lefebvre (The whistler), who is also an actor and screenwriter. He makes a film which does not reinvent the wheel, but it deals with a funny subject with a universal subject, such as the difficulties of a couple’s life over time.
Comedy
New start
Philippe Lefebvre
With Karin Viard, Franck Dubosc, Clotilde Courau
1h40
Indoors