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Director:
Yann Samuell
Stars:
Guillaume Canet,
Marion Cotillard,
Thibault Verhaeghe
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Directors:
Alexandre de La Patellière,
Matthieu Delaporte
Stars:
Patrick Bruel,
Valérie Benguigui,
Charles Berling
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Director:
Guillaume Canet
Stars:
François Cluzet,
Marie-Josée Croze,
André Dussollier
Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Director:
Jacques Audiard
Stars:
Marion Cotillard,
Matthias Schoenaerts,
Armand Verdure
Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
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Director:
Guillaume Canet
Stars:
Guillaume Canet,
Marion Cotillard,
Gilles Lellouche
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Director:
Hervé Palud
Stars:
Thierry Lhermitte,
Ludwig Briand,
Patrick Timsit
The sentimental and comedic adventures of Eddie, a non-Jew trying to pass as Jewish though totally ignorant of Jewish traditions, as he works in a Jewish community.
Director:
Thomas Gilou
Stars:
Richard Anconina,
Richard Bohringer,
Amira Casar
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The movie that Eric and Marie are watching is Scarecrow (1973), with Al Pacino and Gene Hackman. See more »
Goofs
Eric sends a text message to Marie's cell phone to call him back urgently, while he is in the restaurant with the blonde actress. Marie's cell phone beeps when receiving this text message, but when Marie opens the text message, the cell phone's display shows that it is set on mute ("silencieux"). See more »
Though parts of the movie might be enjoyable, characters don't succeed in building a plausible plot. This isn't a consequence of the actors' performance which goes from correct to very good, but it is due to a deep weakness of the whole of the script. It lacks order, fails in getting rid of some parts that are not only not necessary, but also harmful for the storytelling. Much of the situations and relationships are much too false to construct a movie. And I don't believe a different script-writing would have succeeded in doing so. While the movie pretends to be deeper than a comedy, it is much too superficial; much remains unexplained, and too many topics are boringly recurring. Even the few surprises in the plot lack of narrative power to change the overall.
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Though parts of the movie might be enjoyable, characters don't succeed in building a plausible plot. This isn't a consequence of the actors' performance which goes from correct to very good, but it is due to a deep weakness of the whole of the script. It lacks order, fails in getting rid of some parts that are not only not necessary, but also harmful for the storytelling. Much of the situations and relationships are much too false to construct a movie. And I don't believe a different script-writing would have succeeded in doing so. While the movie pretends to be deeper than a comedy, it is much too superficial; much remains unexplained, and too many topics are boringly recurring. Even the few surprises in the plot lack of narrative power to change the overall.