A good movie

To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick. If I recall it correctly, when it was released in France, there was a pretty good buzz about it so I went to see the damned thing in the movie theater. Eventually, I thought it really deserved all the praise it had received. Indeed, even though it was nothing really ground-breaking, it was still a refreshing and fairly entertaining  romantic-comedy. Of course, there was something ‘meta’ about this project as Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg were a real life couple (by now, for more than 2 decades already) and, of course,  Gainsbourg was/is a fairly famous actress. Even though this whole concept could have been rather self-centered, Attal managed to keep enough distance from the material (above all by making his character an ‘average’ guy)  to make it really enjoyable. Eventually, it was pretty obvious that it was Yvan Attal’s directing debut as the whole thing was cute and charming but not much more than that, I’m afraid. To conclude, even though it wasn’t really a masterpiece, I thought it was pretty good and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in French movies.