This was the kind of movie where I wondered, as I got home, at what point it had stopped trying to be a serious film.
As we meet the incredibly charismatic lead we are lead to believe is Stephane (Laure Calamy) everything is perfectly believable. Even her quest to meet her long lost father is something the viewer van accept without question. The home he lives in however, and the people he lives with even more are absurd in such a way that it is no longer a serious attempt to tell a dramatic story. I don't believe the movie takes itself too seriously, but it is definitely sliding into absurdity little by little. In the end, it's a comedy. I never realised that until I got home.
The ending is just ridiculous. No way "Stephane" accidentally kept her girlfriends phone. No way it had not rung before. No way she purposely got caught. I can't think of a single reason to end the film that way. While I was fairly entertained for most of the movie, this made me leave disappointed.
As we meet the incredibly charismatic lead we are lead to believe is Stephane (Laure Calamy) everything is perfectly believable. Even her quest to meet her long lost father is something the viewer van accept without question. The home he lives in however, and the people he lives with even more are absurd in such a way that it is no longer a serious attempt to tell a dramatic story. I don't believe the movie takes itself too seriously, but it is definitely sliding into absurdity little by little. In the end, it's a comedy. I never realised that until I got home.
The ending is just ridiculous. No way "Stephane" accidentally kept her girlfriends phone. No way it had not rung before. No way she purposely got caught. I can't think of a single reason to end the film that way. While I was fairly entertained for most of the movie, this made me leave disappointed.