Little White Lies
(2010)
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Little White Lies
(2010)
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Max Cantara
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| Marion Cotillard | ... | ||
| Benoît Magimel | ... |
Vincent Ribaud
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| Gilles Lellouche | ... | ||
| Jean Dujardin | ... |
Ludo
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Laurent Lafitte | ... |
Antoine
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Valérie Bonneton | ... |
Véronique Cantara
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Pascale Arbillot | ... |
Isabelle Ribaud
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| Anne Marivin | ... |
Juliette
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| Louise Monot | ... |
Léa
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Joël Dupuch | ... |
Jean-Louis
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Hocine Mérabet | ... |
Nassim
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Mathieu Chedid | ... |
Raphaël
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Maxim Nucci | ... |
Franck
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Néo Broca | ... |
Elliot
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Every year, Max, a successful restaurant owner, and Véro, his eco-friendly wife invite a merry group of friends to their beautiful beach house to celebrate Antoine's birthday and kick-start the vacation. But, this year, before they all leave Paris, their buddy Ludo is hurt in a serious accident, which sets off a dramatic chain of reactions and emotional responses. The eagerly anticipated vacation leads each of the protagonists to raise the little veils that for years they have draped over what bothers and upsets them. Pretenses become increasingly hard to keep up. Until the moment when the truth finally catches up with them all... Written by The Film Catalogue
I went to see Les Petits Mouchoirs yesterday and loved every minute of it. And since there are 154 minutes of it, there is a whole lot to love! Yes, this movie lasts for two and a half hours but it certainly did not feel long to me at all.
I thought that the acting was very natural and the people were very real: wow, they even looked like normal people (except for Marion Cotillard who is out-of-this-world-beautiful); a feeling that I feel oftentimes is missing in Hollywood movies where only the dork is normal (= ugly) and the rest of the actors are nothing but overly gorgeous. Obviously some out of the ordinary circumstances occur - otherwise there would be no movie, would there? nobody wants to watch me go to work and do my groceries for two and a half hours - but the way the situations were dealt with made me feel like Les Petit Mouchoirs was a depiction of a slice of life. I laughed out loud on several occasions, but at the end also had a wet sleeve from drying my tears. And in that respect I feel very differently from one previous poster who feels that the acting was weak in the dramatic parts of the movie; I thought the acting was superb.
I definitely recommend this movie, I thought it was highly entertaining and an evening well-spent.