leplatypus 2nd movie of my Swedish trip, always in company of my friend Tatjana and also her friend, Lina. Actually, we watch it on her Macbook screen as the DVD comes a Romain Duris pack i offered to Tati as she likes french DVD and Romain is my favorite new generation french actor.Actually, it was an excellent surprise: the background is really original, the cast is perfect and it's very funny! A bit like "Ghosbusters", the movie invents a new job: breaking couples! So we discovered their methods and it's sure that we haven't seen them before. The team is well balanced between the tormented and good looking Romain, the clumsy Damiens and his wife. I'm not a fan of Paradis as her songs always bored me and she was always playing Lolita in movies. Here, she tries the opposite: she is rather becoming mature and want a serious engagement. Thus, she is cooler and more interesting. In addition, the movie offers wonderful locations between Marocco, Paris and Monaco. Sure, it's about a wealthy family but for one time, i don't mind as it's looks like a modern fairy tale also.In conclusion, it's been a long time since i don't have seen a movie that manages to blend so nicely a thriller, a romance and a comedy, and all that from a french director whom i have never heard of and that's worthy now to follow...

chamarais Why did I rate this a 9. Because this movie sort of finds the line between romance and comedy. It does not try to make a statement or deliver cheap laughs. The movie is beautiful and classy (beautiful like Mr Beans holiday). The scenery is good enough so you can just stare at the background with awe(I once did) and well I don't want to give away anything so go see the movie it is beautiful. They mix music with the scenes very very well The main actress is beautiful I mean the persona not just looks you can stare at her if you don't like the countryside :)(little bit of clementine effect in ESOTSM if you know what I mean) Also there are no plot holes "where it matters". The problem with watching these is that you find it hard to watch a Hollywood movie later because they sort of rush somethings.Much much better than most of the Hollywood rom coms that came in recent times and pretty much entertainning

movie evangelist The Pitch: Breaking up is hard to do. Unless there's a €50,000 incentive, of course… The Review: Oxymoron is probably one of my favourite words in the English language. Not only for the fact that it sounds like a spot treatment for idiots, but that it also describes simply a contradiction in terms, for example "friendly fire" or "sweet sorrow". Some might argue that "romantic comedy" is also an oxymoron, yet movies over the years have successfully made light of one of life's most serious subjects. What has become the case over more recent years is that most makers of romantic comedies should probably be prosecuted under the Trade Descriptions Act – even in the last three years I've accompanied my wife to too many films with that description that were neither funny nor truly romantic.So what a pleasure it is to find that the romantic comedy isn't a lost art after all. And who better to do romance than the French? This, though, is a very Anglicised French take on the modern rom-com – rights have already been snapped up, and it's easy to guess who might fill roles in the English version. Much of the English perspective comes from the main female character, Juliette – she likes Wham records and Dirty Dancing, and has even shackled herself to Egg off of This Life (Andrew Lincoln). a model of British decorum and class (and maybe a sly comment on how the French see the British as lacking passion).So Romain Duris' Alex is tasked with bringing this relationship to an end, and there's a convenient ticking clock of a wedding at the end of the week. There are other stumbling blocks as well, including the reasons Alex has to take the job and Juliette's mysterious friend who turns up and throws several large spanners into the works. What this serves to do is to keep things moving along at a fair old rate, and also to keep the laughs coming. All the while, a believable relationship develops between Alex and Juliette, striking just the right balance between the comedic and romantic elements.There's bits of physical comedy, bits of slapstick and farce, Julie Ferrier as Alex's sister gets about 100 costume changes and through all that, there's a clear line of sight to the objective of getting the two leads together. All in all, this is as light as a small soufflé and about as deep, but it fulfills its remit admirably and should be recommended for those who like their romances with a dash of the funnies. Now to sit back and wait for that remake to be horribly ruined… Why see it at the cinema: Lots of good laughs here that are better shared, and also lots of wonderful French scenery that you can take in at the same time.The Score: 8/10

djburton-1 It is perhaps impolitic to say so, but Vanessa Paradis may just have the ugliest set of teeth to blight the mouth of any leading actor, French or otherwise, in the 100 year history of cinema. I mention this not to be cruel, but to highlight one of the fundamental problems with this movie, which is namely - its leading lady looks like a hastily costumed, warmed-up corpse. An avid observer of French cinema might shrug this off as an irrelevancy, but for a populist movie with ambitions to appeal to a broader, Anglophile audience, it is no small detail that the purported object of desire in a movie framed as a "romantic comedy" is frankly, pretty undesirable. Ms Paradis is no doubt a woman of many fine qualities and abilities, but it is apparent in her performance that she is either acutely self-conscious of - or has been directed to avoid - showing her teeth. This limits her facial expression to the degree that her character in the movie is utterly devoid of any warmth or other noticeable, agreeable signs of humanity. This issue is further compounded by a trite and mostly unfunny script, throughout which Ms Paradis and the rest of the ensemble look constipated. I'm pretty sure that's not just a French thing, either. This is a film to be avoided at all costs. If you find the concept of the movie too compelling to resist, at least wait for the English language remake due any time soon, which by rights could only improve on this Gallic disaster.