Greetings again from the darkness. A French farce minus any real farce ... also known as nothing new. Most of the characters are a bit boring and certainly offer little for the audience to care about, I will say the premise is promising, though unfulfilled.
Gad Elmaheh as Francois is in love with book store proprietor Virginie Ledoyen, but she thinks of him as only a friend. Billionaire Daniel Auteuil is married to a very clever Kristin Scott Thomas, but is in serious lust for supermodel Elena, played by a very beautiful and charismatic Alice Taglioni. Dany Boon is the oafish friend of Francois who is dumbfounded by his friend's luck at the turn of events which lead to Francois shacking up with Elena.
The stage is set for a classic French comedy, but instead the film falls flat as pretty much nothing really happens and the viewer is left to ponder why writer/director Francis Veber didn't expend a bit more effort on the script in order to elicit a few more laughs. Not that it's awful ... just a disappointment in what is usually one of film's more dependable genres.
Gad Elmaheh as Francois is in love with book store proprietor Virginie Ledoyen, but she thinks of him as only a friend. Billionaire Daniel Auteuil is married to a very clever Kristin Scott Thomas, but is in serious lust for supermodel Elena, played by a very beautiful and charismatic Alice Taglioni. Dany Boon is the oafish friend of Francois who is dumbfounded by his friend's luck at the turn of events which lead to Francois shacking up with Elena.
The stage is set for a classic French comedy, but instead the film falls flat as pretty much nothing really happens and the viewer is left to ponder why writer/director Francis Veber didn't expend a bit more effort on the script in order to elicit a few more laughs. Not that it's awful ... just a disappointment in what is usually one of film's more dependable genres.