Today is a french movie, a tad bit weird movie about the love life of a salon owner and her mother
Emilie...
I live for the joy of watching you.
My eyes are my heart,
my eyes are my lungs.
If I close them when you pass,
my whole body cries out for air.
Emilie, you pass me at times without knowing...
You cannot imagine my nervousness, my love, my gaze.
I hate the people who step between us
then love them when they move and I see you again.
Emilie...
you brush past me
and, each time, I feel such joy.
Emilie, you brush past me
and, each time, I suffer.
Too much love and not enough courage make me a ghost.
My fine prose makes an ugly anonymous letter.
Like a blank cheque, it has no value.
Allow me to send it without expectations
but hoping that the joy of being loved will transport you.
You're beautiful, perplexing, never disappointing.
I'll never possess you.
I'm inconsolable.
All the same, Emilie,
please accept my sincere, feverish, and anonymous feelings.
this Emilie found the letter on her desk, read it for a while, crumpled the paper and threw it to the trash bin, just right beside the Jean (aka the original sender). Talk about heartless... Apparently she thought of the beautiful love letter as outdated and it wasn't in her world to keep an anonymous love letter or to even look for the sender.
Emilie was a salon owner and a hairdresser, while Jean was the maintenance guy (more like the odd job guy) who had a big crush on his boss. The story didn't tell any love relationship between the two people, it was a little bit more complicated than that. In fact, the only love relationship they had was near the ending of the movie.
Emilie's father walk out from the family for a younger girl, and her mother had been devastated ever since. She got drunk, refused to come out of the house, and didn't put any make up. A mess, a wrecked soul if you must, Emilie tried to make her mother feel better before delivering the final blow, announcing her father's will for a divorce and a marriage later with the younger girl. Then she got that very nasty idea of taking back the thrown out letter, and changed her name to Maddy, her mother's name.
Some scene later then she found out that the odd job guy was actually a very smart guy who knew a lot of languages and had worked for UNESCO (had studied for 150 years as Emilie said). Suddenly Emilie had inferiority complex and wanted Jean to be fired. Another problem came in when her mother suddenly came glowing because of the letter, and Emilie had to make another letter (which didn't fit in with the first letter, since she didn't study for 150 years). Jean's existence kept making her irritated and she sent him for mail delivery, and accidentally, Maddy thought Jean's as the letter sender.
Things went downhill from there, since Emilie had to clean up the mess she made and Jean felt hurt after knowing his letter was misused. Moreover Maddy didn't really help as she really liked Jean and went nasty after accidentally eavesdropping her daughter blabbering all the clues that she was the one behind it all.
The ending was rather sudden and a little bit abrupt, but i guess it was alright. Nothing special here, except that letter. Also that aggressive mother was a little bit disgusting for me. But it was a good movie and worth watching for a little light snack time.
Speaking about letter, i really miss our letter. I have that habit of peeking into the mailbox ever since your first mail, and i still do, even though i know your letter won't come anymore. Silly me.
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