Gender politics are at the heart of this script director-actress Agnés Jaoui co-wrote with her husband, Jean-Pierre Bacri.
Interested in putting together a documentary on an influential woman, Michel (Bacri) and Karim (Jamel Debbouze) approach the only influential woman they know: Agathe (Jaoui), a feminist author who is visiting her childhood home in the south of France to run for an election and help her sister sort out their mother’s affairs. Karim knows her best: His mother Mimouna (Mimouna Hadji, a nonpro on whom the character is based) has been her family’s housekeeper since she was a girl. What Agathe doesn’t know is that Michel is sleeping with her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot), who is married with children.
Michel and Karim, it turns out, are ill equipped to mange even this modest project. Miscommunication, forgotten batteries and the titular weather all conspire to render their shoot a comedy of errors.
Interested in putting together a documentary on an influential woman, Michel (Bacri) and Karim (Jamel Debbouze) approach the only influential woman they know: Agathe (Jaoui), a feminist author who is visiting her childhood home in the south of France to run for an election and help her sister sort out their mother’s affairs. Karim knows her best: His mother Mimouna (Mimouna Hadji, a nonpro on whom the character is based) has been her family’s housekeeper since she was a girl. What Agathe doesn’t know is that Michel is sleeping with her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot), who is married with children.
Michel and Karim, it turns out, are ill equipped to mange even this modest project. Miscommunication, forgotten batteries and the titular weather all conspire to render their shoot a comedy of errors.
- 6/16/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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