La Tendresse

"Small" movies fascinate me.  I doubt that a director sets out to make a "small" movie.  I think they happen organically, a product of a sensitive collaboration of cast and crew.  Tenderness, the theme and title of this film is a lovely, well paced story of divorced parents teaming up to care for their son injured in a skiing accident.  Lisa and Franz have always respected each other and civilly discuss their past on the long drive to the ski resort.  Funny, warm  and rich in emotion La Tendresse confirms my faith that true love transcends conflict.  There is a lovely cameo by Sergei Lopez [one of my faves] as a hitchhiking fisherman on his way to Norway.