Abandoning his puck Perrier it passes to the vodka

The "mano a mano" fall between Flammarion and the Editions de Minuit continues. After the success of "Mademoiselle chambon" (derived from a novel by Eric Holder) and "Crazy weed" (by Christian Gailly), the duettistes compete directly this week with "Man of bedside" (Holder, Flammarion) and "A night at the club" (Gailly, midnight). But most disturbing in this approximation is the proximity of the topics covered: the Enigma of the couple, the internal injury of a human and the comfort provided by women, the hell of alcohol, the call of the sea...

At Cartagena, coastal town of the sea of the Caribbean, Colombia, Jig by the heat of the tropics, Léo, former former European boxing champion, fled a personal drama in descending in alcohol. When money is scarce, he trades his bottle of rum for medical, even die alcohol. Finally at the end of the roll, he decides to respond to an offer of employment: it is to serve as a carer to a young French woman, nailed to the bed, paralyzed for life after a car accident.

Dangerous shores

Rather than return to France, Muriel has preferred to stay in Colombia. His only distraction, read of the day turning the pages of his book with a rod of wood held between her teeth. She, once so beautiful, so courted, is abandoned by all. And more than a company man, it research, it is a browbeaten. Leo will be this one. The relationship between the tyrannical Muriel and his bedside man even more ill will start Leo continues picoler arm turn, disappears from the days in the low-lying areas of Cartagena where he returns the swollen face, without even deign to give an explanation.

Contrary to all predictions, after the first skirmishes, the Muriel-Léo couple will find its marks. And more, because affinities. Sophie Marceau, whose beautiful face playing the range of emotions, turn violence to tenderness, despair to hope. Christophe Lambert, gruff, amoché, voice broken, excels in a registry that it did not know him. The one and the other did not hesitate to take all the risk in little rewarding roles at the outset, but they manage to transcend.

It is an intimate injury, also, that taps Simon Nardis (Thierry Hancisse). Unlike Leo, Simon stopped to drink. For ten years, it is a row life of father along with his wife Suzanne (Marilyne Canto). But it never ceases to drink At the brutal way that he refuse all alcohol, we understand that the risk of back prowl always. An evening at Brest, where he had come to repair a boat - his new trade - electronics, a client takes him in a box of jazz. Fatal attraction. Listening to a piece of Bill Evans that he seems to know by heart the upset. Abandoning his puck Perrier, it passes to the vodka. The bottle, not the glass. Starts at the piano, where comes the join the haunting Debbie (Elise Caron), singer and owner of the club. In fact, Simon, in a previous life, was an internationally renowned jazz pianist. And it was he who composed this piece. But, as no one would believe, he claimed that he had found a unique partition of Bill Evans. Then he sank. Sensing his old demons reappear, he calls Suzanne for help to come pick him up while he continues to be drunk. Debbie, she hopes that this visit to Brest lasts forever.

Why are a man and a woman thus magnetized by the other Why also, as opposing magnets repel Why are they suffer before rushing into the arms of the other Which console that Attempting to who Why is the hell so close to paradise Issues old as the garden of Eden which have, unfortunately, no response. This does not preclude Alain Monne ("man of bedside") and Jean Achache ("A night at the club") to have approached these dangerous shores with much address and sensitivity.