A Picture of A Young Writer’s Restlessness: The Clash of Idealism and Reality.
Xavier (Romain Duris), a young writer in his thirties who are experiencing chaos of life. Along his lifetime, Xavier who is now living in Paris wants to realize a dream of becoming a writer. Although he has ever tempted to choose a more “conventional” life to be a civil servant, Xavier eventually decided to follow the passion of his heart.
A few years later occurred were a fact of xavier’s choice result. Reasoning that he was paid enough, Xavier became a writer of low-grade popular novels as well as a ghostwriter for celebs who can not write their own biographies.
His love story is also not much better. In recent years, he had only a short affair with a clerk from Senegal namely Kassia (Aissa Maiga). Xavier is still on the verge of confusion to engage in more seriously relationships.
His ex-girlfriend Martine (Audrey Tautou) who are married and become an environmental actinist reminded Xavier about that, but he only gave her a short answer that his job is now sufficient to finance his day-to-day life.
An assignment to create television scripts confronts Xavier with Wendy (Kelly Reilly), one of xavier’s flat mates when he was still studying in Spain, Wendy has been a quite prominent television writer.
Xavier has a deep feeling on Wendy. Unfortunately, Wendy was engaging in a morbid love story. One day, Xavier was also involved in a project of Celia (Lucy Gordon) biography writing, a model. He, subsequently, got engaged in an affair with Celia. At the same time, his deep feeling to Wendy was getting stronger.
On the wedding party of Wendy’s brother William (Kevin Bishop), inviting Xavier, Wendy and some Xavier’s ex-flat mater in Spain departed to Moscow, Xavier got a chance to reflect on his life until today, as well as his feeling and love.
Le poupees Russes (Russian Dolls) is the continuation of L’Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartement) produced in 2002, three years before Russian Dolls being released. The Spanish apartment is one of French movis winning International reputations. As the earlier movie, Russian Dolls was created in non-linear narrative from, with back and forth plot.
This movie encouranges the audience to get reflection and reminds the significance of sustained equilibrium maintenance between idealism and pragmatism as well as a reflection of how a young man understands his own life.
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