My Piece of the Pie Reviews

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 flimsy and whimsical like a romantic-comedy such as ‘Pretty Woman’. I guess the main idea was to show how these 2 characters coming from the pole opposite of the social ladder would have an impact on each other but it was mostly rather eventless and, to be honest, barely interesting. The massive U turn that they made during the final act (eventually, they sleep together, she discovers who he really was, she kidnaps his kid and gets arrested) was just hard to swallow and, ultimately, a messy conclusion for a weak movie with a really shaky concept. At least, I won’t blame Karin Viard and Gilles Lellouche as they both delivered some solid performances but there was not much they could do with such misguided and poorly developed material. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, I still think it is worth a look though but there is no denying that it is Klapisch’s most half-baked movie so far.