Liberté-Oléron Reviews

Basically, it is once again one of those really obscure French movies which almost no one has seen here on Listal. Honestly, I’m not sure how I ended up watching this flick or why I wanted to see it in the first place. Anyway, I thought it was not bad at all and a rather fun flick. The first interesting aspect is that this movie was yet another collaborations of the Podalydès brothers. Indeed, even though most brothers in the movie business seems to end up directing movies together or separately (The Coen brothers, the Scott brothers, the Hughes brothers, the Wachowski brothers,…), those two guys took a different path as Bruno directs while Denis acts. And, I have to say, I really enjoyed Denis Podalydès in this flick. Indeed, he portrays one of those grumpy and selfish Frenchman and he had some pretty nifty dialogs, a really good timing resulting in some quite hilarious situations. Obviously, the story was not really revolutionary but it was never meant to be and I thought it was fairly entertaining. To conclude, even though it is nothing really amazing, it remains quite enjoyable and it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in French movies.