Passages

English definitely has no place in a French film! It ruins the typical French atmosphere and lowers the overall impression. The French are strongest in relationship dramas, so they themselves would bring out strict criteria and thus a strict rating. And among their tough competition, Transit ends up average. The character played by Franz Rogowski is enough to make you want to kill him/pity him/go crazy/laugh at him. Adèle Exarchopoulos's character is cringe-worthy and Ben Whishaw's character behaves most irrationally except in exceptional cases. And as I have been repeating my entire life – even though the number three is my lucky number, in any relationship it is the worst number, because at least one will always jump ship... (2023.07.11)

A mildly humorous relationship drama about a narcissistic bisexual indie-film director who begins an affair with a woman despite being married to a man, who happens to be his court actor. This gives rise to a bizarre situation in which the main anti-hero fights tooth and nail to hold on to his relationship with his life partner, while also being determined to continue his affair with his mistress and promising to start a family. The film is remarkable due to the fact that we follow its plot mostly from the perspective of a self-centred and self-pitying character who is simultaneously unbearable and charming, and whose insolent and supremely unempathetic behaviour increasingly escalates to absurdly comic levels. The result is an entertaining spectacle involving an unusual love triangle, focused on a caricature of a toxic man without a trace of self-reflection, but other than that character’s escalating inappropriate actions, it offers only poorly written supporting characters and excessive emphasis on explicit physicality in the bedroom scenes. (2023.07.18)