What began as a private joke between Jacques Demy and his wife Agnès Varda about
the prospect of men giving birth ended as this sweet-natured role-reversal comedy starring
real-life lovers Catherine Deneuve and... [More...]
What it lacks in artistic merit and originality, Les Sous-doués just about
makes up for in visual jokes and comic momentum. Like many of Claude Zidi’s films... [More...]
A surprising mix of the conventional and the unexpected, Vénus beauté
(institut) is superficially a familiar modern day love story, centred around a middle-aged
woman who finally discovers true love after... [More...]
After Tonie Marshall’s previous cinematic offering, the witty and incisive
Vénus beauté (institut),
Au plus près du paradis comes as something
of a major disappointment... [More...]
Tonie Marshall’s sixth film bears some superficial similarities with her previous
success, Vénus
beauté (institut), in that both portray tangled love lives within an
artificially glamorous setting... [More...]
