**WARNING THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS**
4 stars out of 10.
That is, this review would contain spoilers if the film had any plot, and if anything had ever happened in the film.
This French film intriguingly teases us, but it never really comes to anything.
It begins with an interesting premise, a somewhat attractive woman has an appointment with a psychiatrist, but she mistakenly goes to the office door of a tax attorney who is in the same building.
Once there, she begins to tell him of her marital woes, and at first he doesn't realize the mistake she has made, since he frequently hears personal tales from his clients that are similar to hers.
Eventually the truth comes out, but she continues to come and see him, and they continue to talk, again and again and again and again.
Then finally, when we are at least halfway into the film, her husband, Marc, shows up at the attorney's office. This confrontation doesn't come to anything and neither does the one or two others that occur between the tax attorney and the husband.
Apparently, a deeply troubled person can confide to a tax attorney and get just as much help as they would if they went to a qualified psychologist, at least if we are to judge from this film.
Finally we learn that the somewhat prim and proper tax attorney is in love with Anna, but again it comes to nothing. He never tells her he is in love with her, and no intimacy or anything even remotely romantic or sexual ever occurs between the two of them.
They break off their "therapy-type" sessions for awhile, but by the end of the film they have resumed them.
4 stars out of 10.
That is, this review would contain spoilers if the film had any plot, and if anything had ever happened in the film.
This French film intriguingly teases us, but it never really comes to anything.
It begins with an interesting premise, a somewhat attractive woman has an appointment with a psychiatrist, but she mistakenly goes to the office door of a tax attorney who is in the same building.
Once there, she begins to tell him of her marital woes, and at first he doesn't realize the mistake she has made, since he frequently hears personal tales from his clients that are similar to hers.
Eventually the truth comes out, but she continues to come and see him, and they continue to talk, again and again and again and again.
Then finally, when we are at least halfway into the film, her husband, Marc, shows up at the attorney's office. This confrontation doesn't come to anything and neither does the one or two others that occur between the tax attorney and the husband.
Apparently, a deeply troubled person can confide to a tax attorney and get just as much help as they would if they went to a qualified psychologist, at least if we are to judge from this film.
Finally we learn that the somewhat prim and proper tax attorney is in love with Anna, but again it comes to nothing. He never tells her he is in love with her, and no intimacy or anything even remotely romantic or sexual ever occurs between the two of them.
They break off their "therapy-type" sessions for awhile, but by the end of the film they have resumed them.