A good movie

Arnaud Desplechin is rather an acquired taste but I like his work, especially ‘Un conte de Noël’ which was really awesome. You know, in your typical French Drama, the average characters are always really talkative, usually with some major emotional and/or psychological issues. With Desplechin, it is entirely another kind of ball game though. Indeed, his characters are always massively neurotic and it is something that can put you off. This time, one of the main characters played by Mathieu Amalric (easily one of the best French actors at work nowadays) was actually officially insane so it made things even worse. Anyway, even though I wasn’t completely blown away by the whole thing, I still enjoyed Amalric and Emmanuelle Devos, another actress working regularly with Desplechin, and the characters were quite interesting. Personally, I would rather have such messed up and convoluted characters than the usual stereotypes that you get in your average Hollywood production but that’s me, I guess. To conclude, I thought it was a pretty good flick and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in French movies.

7/10