Summary
Muriel and Philippe are two French secret agents who are charged with
recovering a USB memory stick which was in possession of a uranium
trafficker when he was killed. The memory stick is currently in
the hands of the trafficker’s widow, Constance, and to persuade her to
part with it Muriel and Philippe decide to enlist in her choral music
course. What they don’t know is that other agents are equally
determined to recover the memory stick...
Review
There’s not much plaisir to
be found in this chaotic mishmash of genres (appropriate for a director
whose best known film to date is La Confusion des genres).
There is probably some merit in the idea behind this film, and there is
certainly no shortage of talent on either side of the camera, but a
film that is so lacking in coherence and which fails to take itself
seriously is hard to engage with. It is hard to know which is
more off-putting, the complete muddle of a plot or Ilan Duran Cohen’s
self-consciously arty mise-en-scène. The only thing the
film has going for it is its orginality, but originality without
substance is hardly an achievement.
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Credits
- Director: Ilan Duran Cohen
- Script: Ilan Duran Cohen, Philippe Lasry
- Photo: Christophe Graillot
- Music: Philippe Basque
- Cast: Marina Foïs (Muriel), Lorànt Deutsch (Philippe), Jeanne Balibar (Constance), Julien Baumgartner (Julien), Nathalie Richard (Noémie), Caroline Ducey (Anna), Guillaume Quatravaux (Joseph), Evelyne Kirschenbaum (Eve), Frédéric Karakozian (Reza), Dominique Reymond (L’informatrice), Antoine Gouy (Thomas), Pierre Maillet (Le réceptionniste), Vernon Dobtcheff (Le lecteur du bar), Pierre Palmade (L’animateur radio), Nicolas Pignon (Le médecin), Eytan Kirch (Xavier), Denis Kirch (Le flûtiste)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 99 min
- Aka: The Joy of Singing
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