Slow your pace and pause for breath and there's a world of pleasure to be had from this unhurried small-town tragedy. Stéphane Brizé's film charts the stuttering love affair between a lonesome schoolteacher and a married builder, all the way from the dusty side-streets to the station where they must either board the train or say goodbye. The performances from Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Lindon are extraordinary: quiet neutron bombs of emotion that leave the lovers in ruins and the town unmarked.
The pace of this French romance disguises the emotional devastation of a relationship between a teacher and a builder
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