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‘Colours of Time’ Review: Cédric Klapisch’s Genial, Dual-Timeline Crowdpleaser About Art and Ancestry
Cédric Klapisch's "Colours of Time" sees Suzanne Lindon as a new arrival in Belle Époque Paris while her modern descendants discover her story
To assess its contents, they nominate a delegation, comprising earnest young photographer Seb (Abraham Wapler), brisk Type-A businesswoman Céline (Julia Piaton), schlubby extrovert beekeeper Guy (Macaigne) and Abdel (Zinedine Soualem), a longtime high-school French teacher who is on the verge of retirement. On the contrary, reinvigorated by the Impressionist movement which had dawned a couple of decades prior with Claude Monet’s famous sunrise, the French art scene blossomed during the Belle Époque, which gives Klapisch the excuse to imagine even Adèle’s lowly orbit as one lousy with passing celebrities. Not to suggest there’s anything too disruptive about the easy, breezy “Colours of Time,” as it alights gently on the conclusion — cosy and domesticated in its relationship to once-revolutionary art as a Mona Lisa tea towel — that the real undiscovered masterpiece was the friends (and distant relatives) we met along the way.
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