Most of us, in our romantic lives, meditate here and there on the potential roads we never traveled, and movies are uniquely equipped to channel those alternate-universe-of-love possibilities.
That’s the idea at the (broken) heart of “Casablanca.” And the fantasy of getting to see the turns your life didn’t take play out right in front of you underlies such disparate films as “Sliding Doors,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” and “La La Land.” “Chambre 212,” the new movie from the writer-director Christophe Honoré, treats that fantasy in a way that’s original but oddly familiar, turning it into a gentle surrealist bedroom farce.
But at first we think we’re watching a movie that could be called “Memoirs of a Cougar.”Chiara Mastroianni, with flaming red hair and a wide killer smile that gives her the look of a Gallic Rene Russo, plays Maria, who likes her men young,
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