WRITER/director/star Noemie Lvovsky’s chick-flick, time travel and romance film, while not exactly original, has some moments to savour. Her marriage in bad shape, Camille, 40, drinks too much. On New Year‘s Eve, she finds herself back in time to age 16, one of the girls at school, an adolescent with a mature woman’s awareness.
The classmate who hits on her is the husband she has just ditched. Seeking answers, she makes a move on the physics teacher (Denis Podalydes) in sequences that deal intelligently with the nature of time.
The film, successful on its French home turf, did not rate highly at the recent Canberra International Film Festival. Which is no reason to avoid it.
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