You know those plots where half a dozen very different characters meet just by chance, talk, cross their lives, almost fall in love but actually never can create a stable relation because Destiny doesn’t want them to? Yes, this is one of those

Thierry is a real estate agent and is trying to find a good appartment for Nicole e Dan, a couple with a problematic relationship, never satisfied of Thierry proposals. Charlotte works in the same real estate agency, is a solid believer and likes to gift Thierry with videotapes of a TV show about religion, with a rather embarassing bonus track at the end. Thierry’s sister, Gaëlle, is looking for a partner by posting personals on newspapers. Dan spends his time confessing his problems to a barman, Lionel.

All of them are frustrated looking for love, escaping loneliness, including Nicole and Dan who are breaking their relation. In the round of random events, they got to meet in unexpected ways and help each other, but at the end of the day they are still alone. Oscillating among brilliant comedy, serious pathos and theater, Alain Resnais built a mysterious and fascinating atmosphere, light and candid as the snowflakes falling all the time on a cold Paris.

Sabine Azéma and Laura Morante both deserve a mention for their excellent interpretation.

Cœurs (aka Private Fears in Public Places),
France 2006, by Alain Resnais, Drama
with Sabine Azéma, Laura Morante, Isabelle Carré, André Dussollier, Lambert Wilson, Pierre Arditi
IMDB: 498120