There's nothing to keep Yvan in Paris any longer. His wife has left him to live in Thailand. His teenage daughters have chosen to live with his sister Ariane, who is as anxious as she is admirable. Yvan is ready to leave... when beautiful Emmanuelle enters his life. She makes babies as easily as she falls in love, and she's accompanied by Léo, the little boy who Yvan's wife had with another man. Yvan is going to have to change his plans.
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Cécilia Rouaud a un vrai talent pour faire ressortir la puissance comique de ses acteurs, une distribution impeccable, Denis Ménochet, Léa Drucker ou Vanessa Paradis. Scénario un peu brouillon mais l'humour rattrape vraiment le tout.
Une comique de dialogues et de situations surpuissant, une vraie réussite.
Here's a question: why do so many French romantic comedies suck these days...and why does this one work? Quick answer: the usual battle of the sexes farces are played out, almost impossible to come up with anything new. But add kids, make them the focus, and if it is deftly done, as it is here, it's possible to take a fresh approach. Denis Ménochet, in a breakthrough role, plays Yvan, middle school teacher still hung up on his flaky ex-wife, who has left 3 children behind, not all of them Yvan's, to be cared for by variously preoccupied family members. Yvan meets cute and tentatively relates to a quirky woman (Vanessa Paradis); but this is a side issue compared to…
Low profile indeed — this would seem to be the least-reviewed feature film I've watched, and I can't really fathom why. Low Profile is a real charmer. It's about a man in early middle age, Yvan, who lives in sullen torpor since his desperately beloved wife deserted him to find herself with another man in far-flung lands. Barely able to manage his own affairs, Yvan has defaulted the upbringing of his two high-school-age daughters to his sister Ariane. Now, Yvan's ex has swept through his orbit again; she's freshly single again and off on new adventures, but not before casting off on Ariane the son Léo that she had by her most recent ex. To further complicate matters, there's quirky,…
