Rien sur Robert (1999)

Note Générale:

6,4/10   

Réalisateur:

Pascal Bonitzer

Scénariste:

Pascal Bonitzer (writer)

Date de sortie:

24 février 1999 (France)

Genre:

Comedie | Drame

Récompenses:

1 win & 1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

Enjoyable minor French comedy

Ensemble

Fabrice Luchini	...	Didier Temple
Sandrine Kiberlain	...	Juliette Sauvage
Valentina Cervi	...	Aurelie Coquille
Michel Piccoli	...	Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
Bernadette Lafont	...	Mme. Sauvage
Laurent Lucas	...	Jerome Sauveur
Denis Podalydès	...	Martin
Nathalie Boutefeu	...	Violaine Rachat
Micheline Boudet	...	Mme. Temple
Edouard Baer	...	Alain de Xantras
Violetta Sanchez	...	Ariane Morgenstern
Wilfred Benaïche	...	Igor
Marilu Marini	...	Ana
Alexis Nitzer	...	Monsieur Temple
Dimitri Rataud	...	Arthur Temple

Autre(s) titre(s):

Nothing About Robert (USA) (literal title)

Durée:

107 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Son:

Dolby SR

Classification:

Iceland:L | France:U | UK:18

Société:

Assise Productions

Anecdotes:

Director Pascal Bonitzer appears as a bookshop client looking for Robert Desnos' books.

Connexions:

Références Underground (1995)

Bande son:

Open Beauty

Enjoyable minor French comedy

The character of Didier, whose troubles all begin when he gives a bad review of a film he hasn't seen, was apparently based on a real-life critic who made a similarly lazy judgement about Emir Kusturica's "Undergound". From this starting point, Pascal Bonitzer gives us a humorous portrait of a superficial, middle-class writer who is about to reap the consequences of his intellectual and emotional dysfunctions.

Fabrice Luchini's deadpan, wide-eyed performance as the constantly non-plussed critic who lurches from one embarrassing predicament to another is perhaps the film's main delight. So much so, in fact, that it comes as a slight disappointment to discover the story developing into a conventional relationship dilemma: will Didier settle with his promiscuous fiancée Juliette (Sandrine Kiberlain) who takes a sadistic pleasure in humiliating him at every opportunity; or will he end up with the crazy, masochistic Aurélie (Valentina Cervi) who is Juliette's complete opposite?

While far from the best example of its type, this is a perfectly decent French relationship comedy, well acted and directed, darker and broader than Rohmer, occasionally laugh-out-loud funny (particularly in the scenes between Luchini and Kiberlain), and utterly inconsequential (well, the title does sort of warn us about that).

It has a great final line, by the way.