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Calling this torture to watch is a bit harsh... It's definitely too long and spends too much time focusing on Antoine's everyday life, which isn't all that interesting... The stuff with Jacqueline and Laurent in Paris is much more interesting - watching her determination to do the best for her son turn into something more obsessive and dangerous... Of course, it's obvious from the start that the two sets of people are connected. But, the introduction of the idea of reincarnation is too sudden and clunky. Though, having said that, the film did start to engage my interest a little more at that point... I didn't really feel the reincarnation idea fitted with the rest of the film and it might have been less jarring to have instead given the two sets of people some sort of familial connection - Jacqueline and Laurent's trauma echoing across the generations and subconsciously influencing the characters in the present day... As it is, it just about held my interest - Kevin Parent is nice to look at and the business with the photo during the credits is clever. But, I think I would have preferred to see a film just about Jacqueline and Laurent and their life in Paris in the 1960s.
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