We know less about Lorraine except that she's a graphic designer who's scatterbrained and wholly unready for the role of Mother Teresa. He lives with a teenage stepdaughter Valentine (Yeelem Jappain), who detests him and continually makes excuses not to come see her mom. She's been in and out of hospitals for five years with breast cancer. They also get to know the ladies at the newsstand/gift shop where Bertrand regularly gets a certain magazine for his wife. At first, they simply meet again and have coffee at the cafeteria. Bertrand is so wise, patient, and long-suffering it comes to bug her. Far from the attentive mate with the tireless bedside manner, she's not sure she's ever going to be able to cope if she winds up with a boyfriend who has permanent damage from colon cancer.
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Bertrand, a German teacher whose afternoons are free for these visits, encounters a flustered Lorraine on her first time at the hospital dropping a file of papers and unable to find the ward where her boyfriend's bed is. To Le Ny's credit she dares not to show any patients or doctors, tears, flashbacks, or scenes of working life, though she does fall into a couple of clichés otherwise. As Bertrand and Lorraine, the excellent Vincent Lindon and Emmannuelle Devos are together again as they were two years ago in Emmanuel Carrère's La moustache. Chraccter actress Anne Le Ny makes a creditable directorial debut with this story about a man and a woman who connect in a hospital where their significant others are cancer patients and they are daily visitors.
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