My Piece of the Pie (Ma part du gâteau) (2011)

An average movie

“Even though I have always been a big fan of Cédric Klapisch, it has been a while since I saw one of his movies so I was really eager to check this flick. Unfortunately, the damned thing turned out to be really disappointing and I’m afraid it must be Klapisch’s weakest directorial effort so far. Indeed, the whole concept (a blue-collar woman is hired to work as a cleaning lady for the broker who actually brought down the company where she used to work before) was not really strong and its serendipity quality was actually rather annoying. There was also not a clear approach chosen by Klapisch. Indeed, it was never really dark and realistic like, for example, a really socially conscious tale by Ken Loach (I really wonder what the British director would have done with this material) or ” read more