For someone who loves French Cinema the plus side is a cast list boasting seven 'names' albeit one, Sergei Lopez, has only one brief cameo, whilst the negative side is that it was directed by Francois Ozon, a flavor-of-the-month helmer whose movies tend to fluctuate wildly between entertaining and pretentious. There's no way I'm going to spurn a chance to see Karin Viard and Judith Godreche in one film especially when there's a bonus in the shape of Fabrice Luchini, Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu. Alas, so many of them are wasted on what could have been a definitive Billy Wilder type comedy with a sting in the tail. It's not that any of the players are less than very good or that the plot is totally without merit it's more that instead of insight masquerading as froth we get froth that is barely froth, more the skin on the coffee masquerading as froth.
Review of Potiche
