Tout feu tout flamme Reviews

You might not know who is Jean-Paul Rappeneau but he is actually one of the most highly regarded directors in France. You might have heard of his version of ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ which had some success also abroad. Anyway, apparently, even though Rappeneau had a very long career, starting in the mid-60’s until the 2000’s, he has made only 7 movies so far and usually with 7 or 8 years in between (a little bit like Terrence Malick). Anyway, since his productivity is pretty low, you could expect that each and everyone of his movies would be a great masterpiece, especially in this case, with such a cast (Yves Montand, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Lauren Hutton). Unfortunately, I thought this movie was terribly boring. The tone of the whole thing was really frivolous and it was made this way on purpose but I found it really difficult to care about the plot, above all, if the characters themselves didn’t care about it either. I don’t know, they all try to convince you that they all have a jolly good fun but I wasn’t convinced, far from it. I haven’t seen many movies starring Isabelle Adjanie (only 11 out of 32 films) but it is so far the most disappointing one(behind, of course, the dreadful ‘Diabolique’). To conclude, even though it was watchable, I thought it was a really average flick and I don’t think it is really worth a look, even if you are interested in French movies.