Didier and Elise love each other very much. Didier's mind is mainly committed with rationalism while Elise's is more committed with spiritualism. Their life is quite happy since they met and have a baby a little after. Yet, The fatal illness of their daughter is a dramatic ordeal for their relationship, in a first moment, and for their existence, in a second moment. Didier insists keeping his rationalist attitude against Elise spiritualist attitude. Their relationship and marriage are torn apart, Elise commits suicide and die. Yet, Didier and Elise never stopped to love each other. The last scene, when the apparatus that keeps Elise in vegetative life are turned off and when Didier and his band play a music, seems to say that Didier started to put some spiritualism in his existence; sadly it's too late. I see two messages in this story. The first one is: certain ordeals can be overcome only with spirituality. The second, which derive from the first is: a marriage is much better if the couple share spirituality. The film is moving, the actors are convincing, and the sound track is nice.
Review of The Broken Circle Breakdown
