With Love, From the Age of Reason (L'âge de raison)

Year: 2010
Country: FRANCE, BELGIUM
Run Time: 90 minutes

"Dear Me, today I am seven years old and I'm writing you this letter to help you remember the promises I made, and also to remind you of what I want to become..." Fast forward 30+ years to Margaret, a hard-charging businesswoman who sells global-warming power plants to the Chinese. Margaret has looks to kill and an adoring English lover. In fact, she has everything going for her but freedom. On her 40th birthday, Margaret receives the first bundle of letters she wrote to herself when she was seven. A jumble of colorful collages, photographs, and wildly creative puzzles, they seem to come from a different girl entirely. As her letters to herself keep coming, Margaret finds herself disenchanted. She visits her childhood village and, by reconnecting with people who see in her the girl they once knew, she starts finding her way to the woman she vowed to become. WITH LOVE, FROM THE AGE OF REASON is an absolutely charming film starring the ravishing Sophie Marceau. (In French with subtitles) – B.B.

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