Little White Lies 2

Of course, watch it if you want ... but i hope this review will help to know a little what to expect.

Before watching this 2nd opus, i watched again "Les Petits Mouchoirs" so to remember the relation between the different characters. Then i watch "Little White Lies 2" ... what a disappointment. It almost hurts to see what is going on with these different people when you have seen how growing each of them were as the first movie was ending.

Francois Cluzet plays very well, his anxiety attacks are spot on and not as overacted as some may think (having been through depression myself, i related to what he was expressing: it gets very hard to manage one's emotions) Gilles Lellouche seems to be the only one who has truly grown ... to a point (so disrespectful towards his baby girl and the nanny) ... and Marion Cotillard ........... oh my .... who took the decision to make her fragile but evolving Marie from the first opus to that brainless, crude-mannered, selfish brat??!! - Not only her character is distasteful and not credible at all as Marie, but Marion over does it.

I could go on with everything that makes this second movie a bad sequel: almost each scene portrays wrong choices and bad actions, it is depressing, and it goes for over 2h; some scenes are useless; many are not credible = not fitting the nature of the group of friends we have followed in the first movie ... the list goes on.

What bothers me the most is that all of them behave with so much irresponsibility and stupidity. For example: ordering the kids to go to bed, but being extremely noisy and drunk until late at night; seducing the very young partners who were present for ... their kids; they all seem to have given up on parenting; drinking and smoking to no limit {almost EACH scene} ; "friends" who can't help putting down their friends ... the list goes on ...............

A very disappointing movie with some good actors that made this movie more than 2 very long hours of disappointments.