Melinda, an incredibly popular radio celebrity, resolves relationship problems and family issues with grace, humor and uninhibited honesty on her popular radio show in France. Everyone recognizes her voice, but her face is kept secret to guard her anonymity. Parlez-moi de vous is a film that unmasks the troubled life of a woman who earns a living by helping women from all walks of life--but who cannot seem to help herself overcome the abandonment she felt as a child.
Melinda lives in the 7th arrondissement of Paris; it's a luxurious, expensive location in a beautiful Haussmann building. She's successful, but lives alone with her only companion, a small, well-behaved dog. Antisocial and an OCD case, the film slowly unveils the multiple characters of this woman: her warm, caring radio personality, her unpleasing perfectionist persona and her dark, inner self. At 40, she's a complicated woman, none the less made more complicated by the fact that she has recently discovered, for the first time, who her mother is and where she lives.
I will not spoil the story for you. I recognize that it would be much more enjoyable to go to the cinema yourself to watch this film peal away layer after layer of this woman's personality. It's not judgmental, happy or as positive in the end; it is sad, realistic and deeply profound.
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