Warning: if you are not acquainted with french cinema and its stars and cult actors, you may miss the point of this movie entirely. However watch it with someone who is and you'll get a crash course in french cinema plus a funny take on the quirks and tropes of its big faces.
There may be a plot, but it's not the point, this is a love letter to actors from one of the best actor director and dialogs writer in the business, Bertrand Bier, son of Bernard, one of the best actors ever, has directed 20 movies to date, and worked with the best actors of his generation. He made Depardieu, Miou-Miou or Dewaere households names, he gave Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, or Michel Blanc their most unexpected roles, or gifted Michel Serrault, jean Carmet. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Josiane Balasko or Gérard Lanvin with their best lines ever.
So It is no surprise that everybody who was someone in french cinema in 2000 answered present to his call, at least on the male side, this is les "les acteurs", unfortunately he never got around to making "les actrices", From Delon to Dussolier, Belmondo to Brasseur, Depardieu to Marielle, Galabru to Brialy, Arditi, and so on... they are all here, deliciously self parodying their on screen persona, magnifying the very witty dialogs they're given, and even the ghosts of past greatness (gabin, ventura, Blier and Brasseur's fathers) are very sweetly and delicately called to the screen.
This is a singular gem, to be cherished by all cinema lovers, as it shall walk them through all their years of movie going and recall all the emotions they have had in from of a silver screen.
There may be a plot, but it's not the point, this is a love letter to actors from one of the best actor director and dialogs writer in the business, Bertrand Bier, son of Bernard, one of the best actors ever, has directed 20 movies to date, and worked with the best actors of his generation. He made Depardieu, Miou-Miou or Dewaere households names, he gave Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, or Michel Blanc their most unexpected roles, or gifted Michel Serrault, jean Carmet. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Josiane Balasko or Gérard Lanvin with their best lines ever.
So It is no surprise that everybody who was someone in french cinema in 2000 answered present to his call, at least on the male side, this is les "les acteurs", unfortunately he never got around to making "les actrices", From Delon to Dussolier, Belmondo to Brasseur, Depardieu to Marielle, Galabru to Brialy, Arditi, and so on... they are all here, deliciously self parodying their on screen persona, magnifying the very witty dialogs they're given, and even the ghosts of past greatness (gabin, ventura, Blier and Brasseur's fathers) are very sweetly and delicately called to the screen.
This is a singular gem, to be cherished by all cinema lovers, as it shall walk them through all their years of movie going and recall all the emotions they have had in from of a silver screen.