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In Mademoiselle Chambon‘s Unspoken Romance, Music Is Worth A Thousand Words

“What we have here is a failure to communicate,” a frustrated imaginary bystander might say, interrupting the action of Mademoiselle Chambon by quoting Cool Hand Luke. The question, then, in this restrained romance about a musty marriage interrupted by a violin-playing school teacher that in no way resembles Paul Newman’s movie, is just why these longing, lonely, and muted hearts unintentionally collide in the romantic stratosphere. The mum man at the center of the love triangle is Jean (Vincent Lindon), whose eye catches his son Jérémy’s grade school teacher, the lovely Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), and who stumbles towards an affair that never quite fully blooms. It is a story of locked-up hearts, the habits of loneliness, and the way romance operates awkwardly over class and social strata. Despite working with difficult characters who bring little dynamism to the screen, writer and director Stéphane Brizé coaxes something full of emotion from these quiet, awkward lovers.
By Peter Simek
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