Let's Talk About the Rain (2008)
"Parlez-moi de la pluie" (original title)

Agnes Jaoui plays a local political candidate Agathe Villanova, who returns to her childhood home in the south of France in order to help her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot) sort through... See full summary »

Director:

Agnès Jaoui

Writers:

Agnès Jaoui (scenario), Jean-Pierre Bacri (scenario)

Stars:

Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jamel Debbouze

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Agnès Jaoui	...	Agathe Villanova
Jean-Pierre Bacri	...	Michel Ronsard
Jamel Debbouze	...	Karim
Pascale Arbillot	...	Florence
Guillaume de Tonquedec	...	Stéphane
Frédéric Pierrot	...	Antoine
Mimouna Hadji	...	Mimouna
Florence Loiret Caille	...	Aurélie (as Florence Loiret-Caille)
Anne Werner	...	Séverine
Laurent Jarroir	...	Guillaume
Jean-Claude Baudracco	...	Ernest, le paysan 1
Luc Palun	...	Didier, le paysan 2
Marc Betton	...	Horowitz, le producteur
François Gédigier	...	Le monteur
Bernard Nissile	...	L'homme du baptême (as Bernard Nissille)

Storyline

Agnes Jaoui plays a local political candidate Agathe Villanova, who returns to her childhood home in the south of France in order to help her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot) sort through their recently deceased mother's belongings. While she's there, the son (Jamel Debbouze as Karim) of family maid (Mimouna Hadji) takes advantage of her presence and attempts to interview her as part of a documentary about successful women that he's undertaken with his film school teacher, Michel (co-writer Jean-Pierre Bacri). However, Michel's intentions aren't quite what they seem, as he's having an affair with Florence and hoping to persuade her to leave her husband. Meanwhile, Karim finds his own marriage threatened when his attractive hotel co-worker (Florence Loiret-Caille) declares an interest in him.

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Plot Keywords:

interview | mother son relationship | provence | love | immigrant | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Studio Canal [fr]

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

18 June 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Let it rain

Filming Locations:

Avignon, Vaucluse, France

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$15,660 (USA) (25 June 2010)

Gross:

$106,093 (USA) (6 August 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Les Films A4, France 2 Cinéma, StudioCanal

Technical Specs

Runtime:

110 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

User Reviews

A very disappointing film from Jaoui and Bacri

Agnes Jaoui's films 'Le Gout des autres' and 'Comme une image' are among my favourites of contemporary French cinema. They're smart, well-written, understated comedies that get right under the skin of middle class relationships and neuroses. As such, this, her latest, is an enormous disappointment. The humour is forced and the characters are under-drawn - what is a relatively short movie felt very long indeed. The subtlety of Jaoui's previous films was completely missing - it's as if she's aiming for a much broader audience. Fatally, almost all of the characters are completely unsympathetic - the one exception is an old North African woman played by Mimouna Hadji. I really couldn't care less about these people, their failing relationships or their political ambitions because they just didn't ring true. I suspect that this is a film that will find a limited audience outside France.