The action here centers around a furniture restoration workshop and the people whose lives hover around it. The old restorer's partner dies, he takes in a young guy with questionable morals and various complications unfold. Helped enormously by the actor playing the old man...he had a wonderful hangdog look...a man who has seen and experienced all life's slings and arrows.
The film was hurt by all the other characters...an assortment of unlikable people...each in his own way. Featured the unusual spectacle of a woman 8 1/2 months pregnant starting a love affair.
In the end all was restored to normal...one of the meanings of the title...but it felt contrived. These people will continue to be miserable...perhaps in new ways but, yes, definitely miserable.
Not fun or edifying. Depressing.
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