'Adorable' is a word that should be used sparingly and almost certainly reserved for Audrey Hepburn - there's an outside chance that the Other Audrey, Tautao, may grow into it in time - and the last person I would have considered applying it to would be Manu Devos but better make that WOULD have thought, past tense because this time around I'm damned if she ISN'T adorable as a semi-kook albeit one with a 'serious' job (anaesthiologist in a private clinic) who has a problem making up her mind. Luckily it's not murder/revenge she has to worry about so much as whether or not to accept the constant proposals of her long-time live-in lover and file her attraction to a doctor-patient (Lambert Wilson, who, incidentally, plays a Prince/King himself in the current offering Palais Royal) under 'we'll never know what might have been'. Devos, often cast in humorless, dramatic roles - which she does to perfection, rightly winning a Best Actress Cesar for Sur mes levres - is nothing less than a delight in this lighter but far from insubstantial role and I'll willingly see it again and/or buy the DVD.
Review of Gentille
