La Vie est à nous!
2005 Comedy / Drama
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Summary
In a small provincial town, Louise and her mother Blanche manage a roadside bar.
Their long-standing rival is Lucie, the owner of another bar. On the day that Blanche
buries her husband, she receives a young orphan boy. Despite Louise’s best efforts,
the boy remains locked up in his grief. The next day, a mass of lorry drivers descends
on the town, intending to block the road as part of a national strike. Louise falls
in love with one of the drivers, Pierre.
Review
If it weren’t for its third rate script, this might have made a pretty respectable film.
Whilst not perfect, Gérard Krawczyk’s direction is noticeably more mature and thoughtful
than in his two previous offerings in the risible Taxi
series, and the cinematography is actually rather beautiful in places. Unfortunately,
the script is just so lamentably awful that you can’t take anything in the film seriously.
The muddled plot is full of half-developed ideas which become increasingly fanciful as
the film progresses and the characterisation is virtually non-existent. Even
talented performers such as Sylvie Testud and Josiane Balasko struggle to make their characters
convincing and are only half-successful. Most of the cast – particularly Eric Cantona
and Michel Muller – merely look as if they are uninvited guests on a film set, not sure
why they are there or what they should be doing. With its melange of forced humour,
false emotion and over-baked sentimentality, the second half of the film is just too painful
to watch.
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