If you ever want to spend an evening in front of a DVD and if you search for originality, then this Philippe Muyl‘s flick hasn’t your name on it. How many times have we seen the eternal recipe of a friendship story between a grumpy old man and a little girl as fresh as a daisy(精神饱满的)? Making Julien and Elsa go into the Alps to try to discover the Isabelle is a pretext to bring them together and make them know each other. At first，it’s hostility. At the end, complicity prevails.
Character: Claire Bouanich
Elsa, visibly neglected by her mother but looks unfavorably on her intrusion in Julien’s life. One day, he's going to the Alps to try to find a rare species of butterfly, the Isabelle and for his gre the trip.
They are looking for the Isabelle.
This is the rare species of “butterfly” — Isabelle
This kind of rare butterfly symbolize “love”of precious . In the end, both of them discovered the dearest people is at nearby.Sometimes, we seldom care about our family. If it need to tell them or not? For our favourate things, if it need to possess or not? In fact, the dream of happiness is around you all the time.
Elsa sees in Julien, the grandfather she would have liked to have and especially an experienced person to take care of her. Getting in contact with him, she learns life with its joys and sorrows and her hill-walking is rich in learning lessons so that it‘s nearly an initiatory(启蒙的) travel for her.
Le Papillon
—— A Beautiful Mind
This film was showed in 2002, although after many years, it still made us moved.
Character: Michel Serrault
Julien is a bitter old man in the midst of an emotional desert. His collection of butterflies constitutes his sole passion.