The secure structure of a young, well off family is shattered after a near disaster paints the husband as a coward. It is only the wife who has witnessed his non-heroic behavior but she makes a point of falling apart over it in the presence of others. In turn her husband has a slow and cruel nervous breakdown. All this sounds very heavy but much is played for laughs [of sorts] and aside from the gorgeous setting in the French Alps and often white-out beauty of the camera work, it is a slow, slightly long examination of the culture of maleness and all it has come to mean in modern society.
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Fidelio, Alice's Journey is, if I may be so bold, a women's picture designed for men. Its' not so much a lesson as a an opinion piece about gender roles. Alice is a respected and and up-and-coming nautical/mechanical engineer. She has been given a last minute opportunity for a "promotion" but signing on to a tramp steamer as their 3rd in command. She does not realize that she will be working "under" an ex-lover, the captain. She is leaving her Norwegian boyfriend, perhaps the true love of her life. He has agreed to wait as it is such a great opportunity for her career. But as lust always rears it's beautiful head, Alice is quickly in bed with her old flame who incidentally is divorcing because he now realizes that Alice is his true love. But Alice seems to need more brandishes her appetite to the captains despair. And it turns out she also put's her one-true-love in jeopardy. This is a funny, very sexy movie about commitment and fidelity so often abused by men but this time securely under the hand of a woman. Two women, actually, as the director is Lucie Borleteau who's credits include acting [15 films], writing [5 films] and directing, cinematography producing etc.
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