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Kiss and don't make up
Bribaba - wrote on 05/05/2011
I liked this existential drama primarily because of Isabelle Huppert. She plays Ann, a concert pianist who feels betrayed by seeing her lover kiss another woman. By way of retort she sells up and hits the road, intending to ‘disappear’ and forge a new identity. Her destination is wherever the day takes her, though it turns out to be Italy. This isn’t convincing in the least, her idea seems more illusory than a firm commitment, though maybe that’s the point. Even when hiking in the Swiss alps she’s asked for her passport, which seems very schematic.
Antonioni pulled off this trick in The Passenger by locating its alienated journalist in Morocco. Ann obliquely refers to this when she observes that “Tangiers is an easy place to disappear in”. There are other pleasures the …
