Seaside

Year: 2002

Grade: D

Country: France

Director: Lopes-Curval

Review

not a very interesting or entertaining picture. it’s about a seaside community in france and some of the people who live there. chapters are delineated using intertitles which announce the coming of a new season (apparently the french don’t have autumn because the picture starts in summer, then goes to winter, spring and back to summer). unfortunately each season is barely able to be visually differentiated because the colors are pretty much always the same and the outdoor scenes almost always look overcast. maybe that’s how it is in france, or maybe it was just bad filmmaking. the acting was solid, but nothing to write home about.