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But Tilda Swinton ( "Conceiving Ada," "Orlando") lends the film a morsel of complexity as Sal, the community's peculiarly indifferent chieftain.
In the other two notable roles are Guillaume Canet, as Etienne, and Tilda Swinton (1993's "Orlando"), as Sal.
Supporting performers lend only cosmetic support to the exercise, with Canet and the comely Ledoyen both adequately engaging and "Orlando" star Tilda Swinton convincingly weighty as the communal leader Sal.
As such, while the likes of Virginie Ledoyen ("A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries," "Jeanne et le gar�on formidable"), Tilda Swinton ("The War Zone," "Orlando") and Guillaume Canet ("Barracuda," "Sentimental Education") are easy on the eye, they inhabit sketchily drawn characters at best.
If you like this, try: “Away from Her,” “Still Alice,” “Still Mine,” “Dick Johnson is Dead,” “The Roads Not Taken,” and “Supernova”…
…unlike some recent misfires (the great British filmmaker Sally Potter’s The Roads Not Taken a sadly disappointing example)…
Swinton is the supremely intelligent British actress whose most vivid performance was in Sally Potter’s masterpiece “Orlando.”
Well, you know, Sally Potter with Orlando, and Jane Campion with The Piano...
But the stand-out performances in this little chamber piece are Bruno "Hitler" Ganz who ditches his Downfall reputation with one shake of an incense stick as the preachy life coach-cum-healer, Gottfried, and his estranged partner April (a superbly droll Patricia Clarkson), who references their separation and his failings constantly, but gets no satisfactory bite from the cheery bohemian.
April has a way with savage one-liners, which are often directed at her ill-matched romantic partner, Gottfried ( Downfall ’s Bruno Ganz), who uses his vague New Age spirituality to float serenely — or is it slyly?
Bruno Ganz (in a role as far from Downfall ’s Fuhrer as it’s possible to get) is Gottfried, a hippy-dippy spiritual healer on the sharp end of his estranged American partner’s (a hilariously withering Patricia Clarkson) putdowns.
Ganz, perhaps best known for starring as Adolf Hitler in “Downfall,” is a goofy spiritualist named Gottfried.
You’ve seen Ganz as a chillingly credible Hitler in “Downfall;” Murphy as the shell-shocked pilot rescued by Mark Rylance in “Dunkirk;” and Clarkson in “House of Cards,” “Pieces of April” and “The Maze Runner” movies.
April’s estranged new age husband Gottfried (Bruno Ganz) makes one yearn for the actor to resume his comparatively charming yelling Hitler act from Downfall : “It’s just a broken window,” he offers: “not a window into anyone’s soul.”