A good movie

Recently, I just re-watched ‘L’auberge espagnole’ and I thought I should watch this sequel as well. In fact, I already saw it, somehow, with my wife in the movie theater when it was released. Anyway, Klapish thought it would be a good idea to go back to these characters but I’m not sure if the gap between the 2 movies was big enough (only 3 years). Basically, you get the very same characters but only slightly older and I never had the feeling that they were actually really at a turning point in their life. As a result, the movie struggled a little bit to put most of these characters all back together and the whole thing felt even more random than its predecessor. Furthermore, I thought that Xavier, the main character, was seriously turning into a douche-bag. I mean, during the previous movie, he was already cheating with his girlfriend with a married woman but he was just a young student living abroad so it was understandable. However, in this movie, the guy was already 30 years old but he was still screwing around with at least 3 different girls more or less at the same time and it was really difficult to feel sorry for his so-called impossible love life. And yet, it is probably because the main character was so flawed that the whole thing was still really compelling to watch. Indeed, Romain Duris was once again terribly charismatic and he delivered another strong performance. Anyway, to conclude, even though I thought it was a slight step-down from ‘L’auberge espagnole', it was still a really solid romantic feature and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in French movies.

PS : I was also rather amazed to see how, in just 3 years, Kelly Reilly managed to turn herself from a decent but average looking mouse to a really gorgeous chick