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The Poet's Bride
To get out of warlike depression, why not talk about something that feels good, a thousand miles from things that do harm? So I'm going to talk about cinema.
No, it's not a perfect film, but a crazy, funny, moving, unexpected, poetic film, made for dreamers, for those who hope for a more beautiful life, who seek enchantment, freedom, solidarity, tenderness. I mean The Poet's Fiancé, the good film by Yolande Moreau, where she plays the main role.
Mireille, in her late sixties, returns to her village, which she left forty years earlier following a dark drug deal that earned her three years in prison and the disappearance of her fiancé, a poet who was her great youthful love and whom she has not seen since. She had broken up with her family, but she returned to settle in the large abandoned family house. She found work in the cafeteria of the Charleville School of Fine Arts. And, to make ends meet, she adds some small cigarette deals. She finds the village priest who tells her to open up to others: she takes on tenants, all needy, in exchange for a modest rent, hoping with this extra income to maintain the family home. Cyril, a Fine Arts student who is going to portray Mireille, Bernard, a curious municipal gardener, and Elvis, a slightly high-minded musician who pretends to be American, settle in the big house.
I won't say any more to let you discover the astonishing world of Yolande Moreau. Notice to those who expect realism, we are here in the crazy and lunar utopia of marginality, the antipodes of "normality". But these characters form a fun, joyful circle, with this little touch of madness that makes them endearing to us. They can heal their more or less deep wounds through mutual aid. They form a sort of family to which is added the famous poet, whom Mireille was no longer expecting, a warm and tender tribe of united people who have chosen each other.
Yolande Moreau has brought together wonderful actors around her: Grégory Gadebois, the astonishing gardener, Thomas Guy, the young fine arts student nicknamed Picasso, Estéban the atypical musician, Sergi Lopez, the famous poet, William Sheller, the extravagant but so human… The supporting roles contribute to the spectator's delight. Until a concrete deer head greets us as we pass. They all touch our hearts, we are moved, overwhelmed, at the same time as we laugh at the little touches of subversion, we would like to live with such people, so generous, so tender. The film made me feel good, the same cannot be said of all recent films.
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