![]() ![]() But Balzac lays out how this intricate society works, and he does so not from a front-row seat but from on the stage itself. To present the plot without all that context would leave you with little more than a soapy melodrama. Balzac's book is as much about the world the characters circulate in as it is about the characters. It's hard to imagine another way to handle Balzac's obsessively comprehensive presentation of all aspects of Parisian society, the striations and hierarchies at play in the intersecting incestuous worlds of entertainment, media, finance, art, sex, etc. This could be seen as a negative, but in practice the voiceover-heavy sections are some of the film's most successful. ![]() Xavier Giannoli's film adaptation of Balzac's book leans heavily on voiceover, so much so that some sequences are practically an audiobook with images attached. ![]()
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