The Married Couple of the Year Two Reviews

Jean-Paul Rappeneau is not really famous abroad but he is pretty well known in France. In fact, he is basically the French Terrence Malick. Indeed, even though Rappeneau’s career spread out over almost 40 years, he made eventually only 7 movies. The most famous one must be ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ which was a massive success in France back then and was even noticed abroad. Anyway, this movie was one of his first ones and, to be honest, I don’t think it was really good. Basically, it is one of those fluffy comedies starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. Belmondo started with the French new wave but quickly became a super-star in France and to a lesser extent abroad as well. Then, he turned away from the Art house movies and focused more on commercial efforts with a tremendous success. This time, even though there is an actual historical background, like I said before, it is not a serious affair and I had a hard time to care about the whole thing. Somehow, it reminded me of ‘Tout Feu, tout flamme’, another feature directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau which was even more underwhelming than this one. At least, Belmondo and Marlène Jobert were really charismatic and had a good chemistry together and the whole thing was mildly entertaining. To conclude, even though it was nothing amazing, it remains a decent comedy and I think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in French movies.