Au suivant! (2005) - film review

30-something Jo is a busy casting director.  She enjoys her job, does everything she can to please everyone, but ends up by pleasing no one.  Her love life is a disaster because she is too good natured and fails to see the bad side of anyone.  As a result of her kindness, she finds herself evicted from her apartment by a homeless squatter claiming political asylum.  It is at this crucial juncture that she meets Bernard, the likeable owner of a pet crematorium.   For him, it is love at first sight; for her it is "here we go again".  Jo is soon occupied with casting for a big American movie. The problem is not her work but a director with a well-developed libido...

For her directorial debut feature, Jeanne Biras draws on her many years’ experience as a casting director.  The premise for the film clearly has some mileage but Biras fails to develop a coherent structure and her characters are no more than silly broad-brush stereotypes.  With more work on the script, this could have been a very funny and enjoyable film.  As it is, the jokes are too obvious to be funny and the characters too ridiculous to be taken serious.  The film’s quirky narrative style is at first appealing but soon begins to jar, particularly as the script inadequacies become evident.

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