{"id":397237,"date":"2022-01-21T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-simple-passion-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:02:00","slug":"watch-simple-passion-with-film-summary-and-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-simple-passion-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Simple Passion with film summary and movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40c42719609\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40c42719609\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-simple-passion-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Simple_Passion_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Simple Passion Online&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Simple_Passion_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Simple Passion Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> Her lover is dangerously sexy, tattooed, and sinewy. He calls her in the middle of the day for spontaneous trysts, sending her into a frenzy of trying on clothes and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lying just the right amount of makeup, all in an effort to look desirable without looking as if she\u2019s trying too hard. And when they\u2019re finished and basking in the afterglow of their spirited cavorting, it\u2019s clear in the cold, hard light of day\u2014at least to us\u2014that he\u2019s mind-numbingly dull and they have zero in common.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the harsh truth of the French drama \u201cSimple Passion\u201d from writer\/director Danielle Arbid, based on the novel by Annie Ernaux. Arbid approaches her graphic sex scenes in matter-of-fact fashion, with nothing romantic about the lighting or pacing, heightening the sense that this torrid affair is exactly that\u2014a fling, a spark of a connection that couldn\u2019t possibly last. But we know from the start that Helene (Laetitia Dosch), the 40ish divorcee at the center of \u201cSimple Passion,\u201d views it as so much more. She clings to these moments obsessively, replaying them in her mind, scheming to see this mysterious and elusive man to the detriment of everything else in her life. You want to grab her by the shoulders, look her in the eye, and tell her to snap out of it. She\u2019s too old for such needy, teenage-girl nonsense, and he\u2019s not worth the considerable energy she\u2019s devoting to him. He\u2019s actively boring\u2014and that\u2019s the point. But who he is isn\u2019t as important as what he represents: a chance to be discovered anew for the first time in a long time, to feel beautiful and wanted again.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>Then again, the actor playing him is Sergei Polunin, so you can kind of see the allure. The Ukrainian bad-boy ballet star, as famous for his once-in-a-generation talent as he is for his rebellious streak, is a chiseled spectacle to behold. His character, Alexandre, is a well-dressed official at the Russian embassy in Paris. (What he does there is intentionally vague, prompting Helene to accuse him playfully of being a spy. If only.) He\u2019s much younger and\u2014oh, yeah\u2014he has a wife back in Moscow. He couldn\u2019t be more different from Helene, a university professor and intellectual who enjoys poetry and film. \u201cHe loves Hollywood crap and Putin!\u201d she laments to her best friend on the phone. (And Polunin, we should note, is in the process of getting all his tattoos removed, including the giant picture of Vladimir Putin\u2019s face emblazoned across his chest.)<\/p>\n<p>Alexandre is also cold and aloof to the point of being evasive. The more Helene longs to know him, the more unknowable he becomes, which only makes her want him more. The fresh-faced Dosch plays every note of her character\u2019s wide range of feelings\u2014giddiness, anxiety, rapture, desperation\u2014with detailed precision, and Arbid lets us drink it all in with long takes. Even when \u201cSimple Passion\u201d grows repetitive, and the sex turns perfunctory, and the conversations between these two become even more inane (again, all of which is Arbid\u2019s point), Dosch\u2019s raw physical and emotional performance pulls us in and keeps us hooked. As she wanders the aisles of the grocery store with a faraway look in her pale blue eyes, it\u2019s clear that she\u2019s daydreaming about Alexandre\u2014when she remembers to go to the grocery store, that is. Increasingly, Helene grows detached from the responsibilities of her daily life, including cooking for her surly tween son, Paul (Lou Teymour-Thion). In a vulnerable moment at the dinner table, she tells her only child: \u201cI love you, sweetheart. You\u2019re my life.\u201d He shrugs, a response that\u2014to this viewer, at least\u2014cuts deeper than any of Alexandre\u2019s thoughtless betrayals.<\/p>\n<p>While Dosch\u2019s work is ever-changing but always accessible, Polunin never comes close to matching her acting ability, which ultimately leaves \u201cSimple Passion\u201d lacking. He doesn\u2019t dance at all here, as he\u2019s done in previous films including \u201cRed Sparrow\u201d and the documentary devoted to his life, \u201cDancer,\u201d but that still remains the medium through which he connects most powerfully with his audience. Here, the romance is so devoid of any chemistry beyond a purely carnal attraction, we\u2019re left wondering why this guy of all guys has the otherwise intelligent Helene Google-stalking him and incessantly checking her phone for messages. Girl, he\u2019s just not that into you.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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