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3 May 2006 (France) morePlot:
Franssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 nomination moreNewsDesk:
(2 articles)
"Departures" review. A movie about death and those who work around death. (From Movie Jungle. 3 June 2009)
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Enjoyable, but Grant and Kelly it ain't moreCast
(Credited cast)| Isabelle Carré | ... | France "Franssou" Dumanoir | |
| José Garcia | ... | Stéphane Lachesnaye | |
| François Cluzet | ... | René | |
| Jean-Paul Bonnaire | ... | Jacky Morestel | |
| Michel Vuillermoz | ... | Marc | |
| Mar Sodupe | ... | Christina | |
| Guilaine Londez | ... | Marianne | |
| Charline Paul | ... | La voisine | |
| Olivier Dazat | ... | Casteldi | |
| Luis Rego | ... | Robert | |
| Renée Le Calm | ... | Mlle Poilloux | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Éliane Adatto | ... | Concierge | |
| Vincent Andrieu | ... | Employé notaire | |
| Guillaume Bacquet | |||
| Marcelle Barreau | |||
| Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat | ... | Réceptionniste | |
| Joseph Braconnier | ... | Bagagiste | |
| Claire Charré | ... | Conseillère bancaire | |
| Marius Colucci | ... | Employé de réception | |
| Jean-Louis Combelles | ... | Maître d'hôtel | |
| Fernand Dalmasso | ... | Automobiliste | |
| Georges Eon | |||
| Sébastien Féron | ... | Loueur de voiture | |
| Raymond Gil | ... | Notaire | |
| Colette Grivet | ... | Femme de ménage | |
| Stéphane Jouin | ... | Barman | |
| Gérard Jumel | ... | Directeur | |
| Béatrice Khebizi | |||
| Johnny Luchenne | |||
| Ham-Chau Luong | ... | Couple asiatique | |
| Philippe Manesse | ... | Homme hippodrome | |
| Richard Morgiève | ... | Prêtre | |
| Kim Nhan | |||
| Michel Ouimet | |||
| Patrick Palmero | ... | Roberto | |
| Hoan Pham | ... | Couple asiatique | |
| Philippe Smail | ... | Bruno | |
| Claude Testoris | |||
| Aurélie Valat | ... | Secrétaire du notaire | |
| Marion Waternaux | ... | Serveur sri lankais | |
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1.85 : 1 moreFun Stuff
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An odd one this - on the face of it, a modern French update on classic rom-coms such as Some Like It Hot and To Catch A Thief.
This film sees pretty, young Franssou unexpectedly inherit 50,000 Euros from a distant, miserable great aunt. She sits with her friends and almost inanimate boyfriend and discusses what to do. It's not a lot, but...
Faced by her lover's assertion that a new double bed and some savings certificates would be nice, she flees silently to the Riviera, where she puts up in a posh hotel and acts like she is rich.
In so doing, she comes to the attention of local spiv Stephane, and there begins a competition. Will Stephane succeed in all his crooked plans, or will Franssou lead him on a merry dance into being her lover? At this level, it works enjoyably enough. The two leads are delightful and give excellent, naturalistic performances (in fact, I think I have fallen in love with Isabelle Carre), and the film plays smoothly with that essential dash of Riviera style.
And yet... at various times, Stephane is seriously unpleasant towards Franssou - for instance, in the middle of an otherwise lightly amusing scene, he hits her with a shocking viciousness. Further, he is shown to be, basically, a well-dressed, callous, childish French-Arab low-life, whom Franssou for some unearthly reason insists on taunting into fancying her, while she, in turn, seems quite happy to adopt his nefarious ways.
Having a denouement as 'I conned a conman into loving me so I decided to join him in conning other people too' seems very odd and frankly, is quite uncomfortable for a viewer who is fairly certain they are watching a romantic comedy.
So what's going on? I'm not at all sure, but does Franssou's real name (France) give any clue? Is there a parable in here? I hope not.