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
(as Matthieu Chedid)
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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
In Paris, a truck runs over the biker Ludo (Jean Dujardin) while he is driving home after spending the night snorting cocaine in a night-club. His long-time friends visit him in the hospital where he is in coma. The group is ready to travel on the annual vacation to the house of the successful businessman Max Cantara (François Cluzet) nearby Bordeaux and they decide to travel anyway and return when Ludo is better.
The physiotherapist Vincent Ribaud (Benoît Magimel), who is married with a child, tells to his fifteen year-old friend and godfather of his son, Max, that he wants to talk to him in private and they have lunch together in Max's restaurant. Vincent discloses to him that he has fallen in love with him. Max reacts to his words and Vincent asks him to keep the secret and forget their conversation.
Along the days, each friend has a little secret while Max is near nervous breakdown with Vincent. Until the day that Max's friend Jean-Louis (Joël Dupuch) tells the truth about their little lies and friendship.
"Les Petits Mouchoirs" is a French movie about friends' reunion in the same style of the American "The Big Chill" by Lawrence Kasdan or the British "Peter's Friends" by Kenneth Branagh. The movie has great performances but the prolix story is too long, a corny conclusion and deserved to be better and better for such wonderful cast. I liked this movie, but many sub-plots and the conclusion should have been shortened or deleted in the edition. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Até a Eternidade" ("Until the Eternity")