The south of France, 1970s. A writer lacking inspiration, Roland rents a luxurious room with a sea view with his wife, Vanessa. As they fight and shut each other out , this couple in crisis seems on the verge of implosion. Until the arrival of a young married couple, madly in love, who rent the room next door and gradually offer Roland and Vanessa a chance to save their marriage.

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Mr. and Mrs. Smith have really changed. Ten years after they met on the set of the action movie, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are back as a couple in this old-school marital drama. For her third time behind the camera – after the small-budget war movie In the Land of Blood and Honey and the big-budget war movie Invincible, the Oscar-winning actress/director changes track and goes for the arty European film genre. An attempt that almost succeeds. This aesthetically pleasing and mesmerizing chronicle is illuminated by its dreamy melancholy, which almost makes up for its interminable length and a thin plot that offers nothing new or remarkable – although it is a charming movie, thanks surely to the couple’s charisma and the game it plays with their celebrity.