i have never see such a nicely make piece of rubbish in my life . i be still work out what the film be about and what be it cause . there be none and i felt i waste an hour and a half and as well a £1 . 50 hire this from the library . nonetheless and it be beautifully make and the camera work be nice and there be interesting statement about love and sandra majani have a very nice bottom . so what do happen exactly while well and it about a man call victor chmara ( hippolyte girardot ) who doesn not do much with his life apart from live off his father inheritance . he fall in love with the beautiful actress yvonne ( sandra majani ) and become best buddy with her mysterious old friend dr meinthe ( jean pierre marielle ) . they all have a great time together and then thing go wrong after a strange motor or fashion show . victor want to go to the usa and yvonne doesn not and and the doctor just continue be camp . if i tell you anymore and i end up tell you the end and so that enough of the synopsis . there be ingredient in this film that i like . the camera work be sometimes interesting and there be some nice landscape shot . the dialogue and the heart to heart and the warble about their life and the philosophical statement about never let her ( yvonne ) go be very romantic and very poetic . the acting by jean pierre marielle a the camp doctor be also amuse . otherwise and his character be totally waste in the story and have a far big role than that be necessary . for me and patrice leconte reason for adapt patrick modiano book villa triste to the big screen be all about sandra majani and see her nude . she be a poor actress . her movement and the way she carry herself be half hearted . that go for hippolyte girardot as well . he play someone a little too stiff to be in love . either the actor be poor or the director be and because there be bad performance all around and and it the director job to make sure that these type of performance do not happen . another of his problem be convey the message in the story . they be mix up and statement of romance be just throw together without thought of the plot . to me it just seem pretentious and the director be try to be too clever with little resource . the story have little mean other than not to let love go when you have it . that and to see a beautiful french lady naked and which be admittedly quite nice . the statement of love be unsubtle and the act do not really convey any proper emotion . totally unconvincing and i hope yvonne bad smell perfume go away . i give this film two .