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15 août
2001 Comedy
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Credits
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Director: Patrick Alessandrin
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Script: Lisa Alessandrin
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Photo: Damien Morisot
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Cast: Richard Berry (Max),
Charles Berling (Vincent),
Jean-Pierre Darroussin (Raoul),
Mélanie Thierry (Julie),
Selma El Mouissi (Nina),
Manon Gaurin (Alice),
Quentin Pommier (Arnold),
Thomas Goulard (Sébastien),
Ludmila Mikaël (Louise Abel),
Blandine Bury (Stéphanie),
Annette Merchandou (Madame André),
Marie-Christine Demarest (Madame Michaud),
Jean-François Gallotte (Fabrice,
Julie's father),
Serge Hazanavicius (Loïc),
Gianni Giardinelli (Le copain de Julie),
Géraldine Brezault
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Country: France
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Language: French
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Runtime: 92 min
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Summary
One August, three friends – Max, Vincent and Raoul – arrive at their rented holiday home,
only to find that their wives have gone off on their own, leaving them to look after their
children. As the days pass, and the three men struggle to
adapt to their new role, nerves soon begin to fray, and they wonder why their wives have
abandoned them and if they will ever return…
Review
15 août, Patrick Alessandrin’s second film, starts well enough, and offers
so much with its distinguished trio of lead actors Berry, Berling and Darroussin.
However, all too quickly the characters are reduced to familiar stereotypes and
the narrative becomes stale, throwing up situations which have been done before – and
better – in previous films of this genre. This is not to deny
that the film does have entertainment value, with some great comic moments.
Its main fault is that is doesn’t seem to offer anything new or even dare to challenge
the conventional views of what men do and think. The washing
machine sequence is a case in point. For once, it would be
so nice to see a male character do the household laundry without causing some comic book
domestic disaster… This is how women like to think of men: utterly useless about the
home and driven by one or two primitive urges. The image is an amusing one, but it is
fast becoming out-of-date. Most men watching this self-consciously "intelligent" film
will be appalled by the shallow, stereotypical way in which they are portrayed.
© James Travers 2006
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