Le Cou de la girafe (2004)

Le Cou de la girafe is a French film comedy-drama first released in 2004, directed by Safy Nebbou.  The film stars Sandrine Bonnaire, Claude Rich, Louisa Pili, Darry Cowl and Philippe Leroy.  It has also been released under the title: The Giraffe’s Neck.  Our overall rating for this film is: mediocre.


Since her parents’ separation, nine-year-old Mathilde lives with her mother Hélène.  Her only true friend is her grandfather, who is confined to a nursing home.  One day, whilst rummaging in a mattress, Mathilde finds a letter addressed to Paul from his former wife, who left when Hélène was ten.  One night, she goes to visit Paul and persuades him to track down his ex-wife...

Yet another a barrel load of syrupy sentimentality from a first-time film director involving a child and her grandfather doing highly improbable, and slightly disturbing, things together.  There’s a lot of talent on both sides of the camera (but very little in the script department), yet this is largely wasted since the end result is a soggy mush of unconvincing triple strength saccharine that would be hilarious if it wasn’t so painful to watch.

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