Heart to Heart

A curate's egg of a movie: often lauded beyond its station , "confidences pour confidences " is a confused family chronicle ,with a sometimes disjointed screenplay ; also handicapped by caricatures : the grumpy military man,the fiancé who stammers,the lover afraid of his wife ;besides it's hard to believe that the heroine becomes a schoolteacher ,out of the blue,after solely studying shorthand typing. The same goes for the implausible scene of the rich kid's desirable mansion where his prim dad welcomes the pregnant girl.

On the plus side , Daniel Ceccaldi as the father overtaken by events but always keeping his composure and Henri Crémieux as the wise grandpa , stand out; the depiction of a grocery shop in the early sixties is marvelously precise with witty lines ( "giving credit attracts the clientèle /yes ,the clientèle short of the readies")The scene in which ,in front of a gendarme, mother thinks it's the dog they've found ,is a good moment too.

A dog that played a supporting part in Claude Lelouch's "un homme et une femme" : an extract of the famous movie is shown. Lelouch in the flesh, appears too.