Wow, for once a French movie that takes place outside of Paris, even way outside (in Aix-en-Provence), and treats this place just as if it was a normal place, and not just a zoo where real people from Paris go for a visit.
The protagonist, Stéphanie, is of course nothing less than a successful architect, and has "studied for 10 years", but now she's not only out of a job but for some reason also so destitute that she has to move back in with her mother and borrow money from her siblings. The movie changes its tack several times, usually exploiting a comedic situation until it runs dry. At first, the film cashes in on the situation of a grown woman (who is a mother herself) being treated like a child once again. There is a great scene with a overly jolly counselor at a job centre. Next, a comedy of errors where the mother (the utterly likable Josiane Balasko) tries to hide her lover from her daughter, which causes the family to suspect that she is becoming senile. At the end, after pulling a quick McGuffin, Stéphanie can move into a beautiful home and the family reunites around maman and her grey-haired gigolo. Roll credits.
Overall and enjoyable and light film with a forced ending which could have done with a better script.
The protagonist, Stéphanie, is of course nothing less than a successful architect, and has "studied for 10 years", but now she's not only out of a job but for some reason also so destitute that she has to move back in with her mother and borrow money from her siblings. The movie changes its tack several times, usually exploiting a comedic situation until it runs dry. At first, the film cashes in on the situation of a grown woman (who is a mother herself) being treated like a child once again. There is a great scene with a overly jolly counselor at a job centre. Next, a comedy of errors where the mother (the utterly likable Josiane Balasko) tries to hide her lover from her daughter, which causes the family to suspect that she is becoming senile. At the end, after pulling a quick McGuffin, Stéphanie can move into a beautiful home and the family reunites around maman and her grey-haired gigolo. Roll credits.
Overall and enjoyable and light film with a forced ending which could have done with a better script.