Little White Lies Reviews

The day before, I just watched ‘Nous finirons ensemble’ with my wife and since we both enjoyed it, I thought I might rewatch this movie, especially since my wife didn’t see it. Well, I actually think that she enjoyed more the sequel but I think that both movies worked fine. I think that this first instalment took much more time to finally take off (it’s also much longer) and it’s actually more dramatic. Anyway, the damned thing did start with a really neat one-take shot and Guillaumet Canet was a little bit a show off with this scene, obviously inspired by some similar ones especially  the famous club scene in ‘Goodfellas’. Still, it was really well done and a great way to introduce Ludo. Eventually, this story wouldn’t be actually about Ludo but about his friends who surprisingly decide to go on their traditional holiday while Ludo is lying in the ICU. The funny thing is that I witnessed a really similar situation the very same year I watched this movie the first time around. Indeed, every year, my stepchildren go to some luxury ski holidays with their father and the rest of his family and, back then, just a week before they were supposed to go, their grand-father got a severe cerebral haemorrhage but guess what? They still went anyway to their ski holidays as usual. Seriously, that’s something I really don’t understand (are holidays really that important?) but that’s apparently something that people really do. Anyway, coming back to the movie itself, I thought it was pretty good, thanks above all to a really strong cast but not everything did work though. The main issue, in my opinion, was that there were so many characters involved (If you count all the various couples, you would come up with more than 10 men and women) and, as a result, even if the movie was rather long (150 mins), there was still not enough room to really develop all of them. Still, in spite of its flaws, I really liked the mood, it was a well-made movie with some solid performances and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in French movies.