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“3 Hearts” is part of passion in a love triangle

By Jenny Alvarez

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During 106 min. this great film (‘3 Coeurs’) with unique French style and contempo which involves a love triangle with a Parisian man Marc (Benoît Poelvoorde) who meets Sylvie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) after missing his train back to Paris. Instantly and intensely drawn to one another, they wander through the streets until morning in rare, almost choreographed, harmony. A thwarted plan for a second meeting sends each in a separate direction –Sylvie reunites with her ex and leaves France; Marc falls in love and marries.

What neither knows is that Marc’s new bride is Sylvie’s sister, Sophie (Chiara Mastroianni). Upon Sylvie’s return to France, the spark between her and Marc is reignited in ways that will forever alter the relationships between sister to sister and husband to wife.

This film reflects part of reality of life. Sometimes one moment changes our lives. Catherine Deneuve still looking quite remarkable. Many locations are settled in Paris and a provincial town south of Lyon. In general it’s powerfully emotional film that references great romances of the past. Even the whole film is spoken in French, you will have the English subtitles so some dialogues are more enjoyable in French; especially, if you understand the basics.

The Maid’s Room is a great domestic thriller

By Jenny Alvarez

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Drina is an attractive, intelligent immigrant who takes a job for the season as live-in maid to the Crawford’s, a privileged New York family who maintain a splendid home in the Hamptons. But the Crawfords spend most of their time in the city, but their teenage son, Brandon, who is starting Princeton in the fall, is summering at the beach, and Drina must look after him and his spoiled friends. Since the maid’s room is next to the garage, Drina can’t help noticing when Brandon returns late one night, noisily and obviously drunk.

Then Brandon showed up unexpectedly from college and Drina witnesses him committing a horrible crime. Drina knows that if she reports Brandon she’ll lose her job, and the Crawfords show the dark side of family loyalty by closing ranks and insinuating that they will do whatever it takes to protect him. In this case the situation is intoxicating, and it also places her in far more danger than she imagines.

The Maid’s Room is a psychological thriller that explores the complex relationships between truth and justice, hubris and power, wealth and fear and the most interesting part is that topics like immigration and domestic servitude are related to Dina as a good sample of lack of value as an individual and as worker in USA. It has an intriguing plot with certain violence but very well structured dialogues and characters. In an interview for GalaTView Paula Garcés from Colombia said: “This movie is very well written but I never have played a character like Drina because is a film full of suspense and horror. Psychologically makes you think deeply about a situation similar to the Drina’s in which you don’t know what to do so I wanted to take the opportunity with this kind of role. “

Definitively a great movie you can’t miss to see for a perfect weekend with your friends or beloved people.