Parlez-moi de la pluie (2008)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Agnès Jaoui

Writers:

Jean-Pierre Bacri (writer)
Agnès Jaoui (writer)

Release Date:

17 September 2008 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Sheep | Cell Phone | Sister Sister Relationship | Video Camera | Mother Son Relationship

Cast

Jean-Pierre Bacri	...	Michel Ronsard
Jamel Debbouze	...	Karim
Agnès Jaoui	...	Agathe Villanova
Pascale Arbillot	...	Florence
Guillaume de Tonquedec	...	Stéphane
Frédéric Pierrot	...	Antoine
Mimouna Hadji	...	Mimouna
Florence Loiret	...	Aurélie (as Florence Loiret-Caille)
Laurent Jarroir	...	Guillaume
Anne Werner	...	Séverine
Jean-Claude Baudracco	...	Le paysan #1 / Ernest
Luc Palun	...	Le paysan #2 / Didier
Marc Betton	...	Le producteur
François Gédigier	...	Le monteur
Bernard Nissile	...	L'homme du baptême

Also Known As:

Let It Rain (International: English title) (informal title)
Let it Rain (USA) (festival title)
Let's Talk About the Rain (UK)

Runtime:

USA:110 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | UK:12A | Sweden:Btl | Portugal:M/12 | South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

Avignon, Vaucluse, France

Company:

Les Films A4

A very disappointing film from Jaoui and Bacri

Agnes Jaoui's films 'Le Gout des autres' and 'Comme une image' are among my favourites of contemporary French cinema. They're smart, well-written, understated comedies that get right under the skin of middle class relationships and neuroses. As such, this, her latest, is an enormous disappointment. The humour is forced and the characters are under-drawn - what is a relatively short movie felt very long indeed. The subtlety of Jaoui's previous films was completely missing - it's as if she's aiming for a much broader audience. Fatally, almost all of the characters are completely unsympathetic - the one exception is an old North African woman played by Mimouna Hadji. I really couldn't care less about these people, their failing relationships or their political ambitions because they just didn't ring true. I suspect that this is a film that will find a limited audience outside France.