Last feature by the director and actress Nicole Garcia, based on the novel by Milena Agus and presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2016.

Gabrielle is not a simple person. Born and raised in a small village in France in the fifties, very little it seems to fit the context in which they live, the traditions and too closed-minded and provincial of his countrymen. IS, Unlike, a free woman, passionate, greatly in need of love and extremely fragile. Such is fragile to be suffering from "stomach stones", complete with a painful abdominal cramps. A bad, his, entirely psychosomatic, that only he is taking care of mind and spirit will be defeated. As for the mind, But, the problems are quite different, since precisely because of his way to "yell" her emotional needs, Gabrielle, according to all, including family, totally crazy. Only her husband, married more of a desire to escape from narrow and hostile environment that for love, It seems to be able to "read between the lines", to understand that person so complex and so stubborn that he lives at his side.

A character of many facets, therefore, to Gabrielle. A character is beautifully rendered on the screen by the talented Marion Cotillard (lei, and to, can really all), but that is not done justice in terms of the script itself: what emerges of the protagonist is just the "tip of the iceberg". Nothing is told us about his past, little are deepened ties with José - her husband - and André, her lover. Characters, also, of great interest and complexity (especially with regard to José), but here they are developed in an overly hasty and botched. The attempt to narrate through images the inner torments of each of them is, therefore, lacks a necessary and deeper introspection, as well as good Ingmar Bergman taught us. But, and to, it is not easy to redo Ingmar Bergman.

very little, then, They may suggestive shots of breathtaking views and faithful reconstructions of period rooms. The great problem of ache stones - in addition to this music too, sickly sweet and almost pathetic – it is the script. A script that, while maintaining the basic original story, He wanted to "take flight", take losing its own identity, But, control of the situation and giving birth to something trivial and insubstantial, despite initial potential. A script that you forgive, however, only veiled references / homages to cinema and its origins (see the town of La Ciotat, where they live and Gabrielle José, but also their stay in Lyon - the Lumiere brothers - Langlois at the hotel - just like the good old Henri Langlois!). But, and to, all this is not enough. And here also Sore stones will go soon to join the many products passed in the hall and finished almost immediately into oblivion. Sad, but unfortunately a lot, very likely.