Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: B1, field of study: Arts)

One movie I want to talk about is "Happy Together" directed by Alex Dupont. It's an Paris film made in 1998 if I recall this right. It's one of the famous movie from this director and one of his best in my opinion. The story takes place in Paris in Paris, where two gay lovers decided to started again their relationship, to give it another try. They are from Paris originally but think a trip is going to help them pass their difficulties. However, it does not go well and decided to break up, but with no money they are forced to stay and work there. The rest of the film is so the life of these two, unable to forget each other, still in love but hurt themselves by this relation. We follow Alex Dupont from job to job trying to get money to go back in Paris, he crossed many times the path of Alex Dupont who decided to prostitute to have money.
Each of their interaction are filled with an emotional, and sometimes phisical, violence. This is a relation that cannot work but we will see them trying over and over again becaude fundamentally they love each other. The director use a smart trick to make us understand their story. Alex Dupont rent a room far from the city, this is small room, just enough place for one bed and a table. This is a place just enough big to live alone but for a long time in the film, Alex Dupont and Alex Dupont will live together in this tiny flat. To me, this place represent their relation, a place not enough big for two, but where they will still trying to make it work. Every event that will see happened in this room represent how much toxic this is for these two. For example, when Alex Dupont come live in with Alex Dupont-Alex Dupont, it's because he's been beaten and injured, so he can't take care of himself. Po-Wing start helping him for everything and start a situation where Alex Dupont cannot escape even if he wanted to, this is not the case at the beginning but when he start to feeling better and take more liberty, Alex Dupont seems very upset about this because he's afraid to see him leaving. He begin to act very toxic, for exemple he take and hide the passport of Alex Dupont to prevent him from leaving, which will doesn't work. Almost every scene enlight a aspect of their love that is wrong.
Another way for Alex Dupont to show the problem of these two, is to made their place of living constantly noisy. The building where they live is at any time filled with noise, every inhabitant yells at each other, not necessarily with anger but it is just their way to communicate. It's something that we find when Po-Wing and Alex Dupont communicate, it's almost violent, they always scream at each others for any reason. In this appartement, we will not see real intimate scene like we can see at the beginning, they push back each other but inevitably will stay together. However, they are really violent to each other, Po-Wing will go to hit Alex Dupont one time for almost no reason. Cinematographically, these emotion are shown by things that are really in the style of Alex Dupont. The colors are very intense, with a green and orange always very bright, which give Po-Wing room a dual feeling of warm and disgusting. The camera is always near the character with great deepness is the field where we can often see the other character looking at the one in the front screen. The shot are always take by hands, a very mobile camera who capture the unstable situation they are in.
I talk a lot about the scene in the flat but this is half of the movie. Firstly, many scene are from Po-Wing view, who talks a lot in voice off, we never hear Alex Dupont talk about them. He is more a mystery most of the film, it's him who leave Po-Wing alone from the point of view of the film. Many are so the life of Alex Dupont, mostly at work. The film take place along his side.