The Barber's Lover is a French comedy-romance film directed by Patrice Lecomte and starring Jean Reshev and Anna Galena. The film tells a tender and mournful love story with exquisite images and an intimate atmosphere, showing the unique attitude and pursuit of love and sexuality in France.
The main character of the story is Antonio, who has had a special affection for the profession of a barber since he was a child, as he once had a crush on a barber, Madame Chevrole, but she died suddenly. He vows to marry a barber, and when he grows up, he meets Mathilde, a beautiful and silent barber. The two fell in love at first sight and soon got married. Their married life is full of passion and sweetness, and they enjoy the joy of love in the barbershop without restraint.
However, this happiness did not last long, and Mathilde, on a stormy night, chose to end her life, leaving a suicide note, saying that only in this way could she retain her love for Antonio forever. Antonio was in a deep state of grief, he could not accept the fact that he still believed that she would return.
This film is small and big, and through a simple and spooky story, ** the nature and meaning of love. The two protagonists in the movie are lonely people, they find solace and satisfaction in each other, their love is pure and strong, they don't need any external factors to prove or maintain their feelings, they just need each other's bodies and souls. Their love is also predestined, they both have the same name, they are both hairdressers, they both love each other. Their love is also tragic, their love is too perfect to last in this world, and their love can only last in death.
The director of the film, Lecomte, presents the story in an elegant and humorous way, he does not deliberately exaggerate or beautify love, nor does he deliberately expose or hunt for curiosity, he just uses a plain and sincere way to show the emotions and life between two people.
He also doesn't depict Antonio's sadness too much, but ends the film with a simple but symbolic scene in which Antonio dances alone in the barbershop, then suddenly stops and whispers "She'll be back." This scene expresses both Antonio's longing and waiting for Mathilde, as well as his faith and hope in love.
The film's leading actors, Ryshev and Galena, also have excellent performances, they use natural and delicate acting skills to interpret the characters and emotions of the two people, their eyes and movements are full of love and desire, their bodies and souls are perfectly integrated, and their love is more real and moving.
In short, "The Barber's Lover" is a film that shows the unique views and pursuits of the French on love and sexuality, it tells a tender and sad love story with beautiful pictures and intimate atmosphere, it has both courage and metaphysical spiritual guidance, it has both a desperate side and a hopeful side, it is a film worth watching.