On appelle ça... le printemps (2001) - film review

Two friends, Fanfan and Joss, rediscover their freedom when their marriages simultaneously come to an abrupt end.  Fanfan walks out on her husband whilst Joss is thrown out of her apartment by her spouse.  They decide to move in with a third friend, Manu, although her husband, Mytch, is less than pleased with the arrangement.  After Mytch has thrown them out of his home, the three women move in with Manu’s secret lover and plot their revenge against their three husbands...

In contrast to most French comedies, On appelle ça... le printemps relies more heavily on visual jokes than scripted dialogue, and the main pleasure in watching this film is the the oddly surreal comic situations which arise in the course of what appears to be a fairly run-of-the-mill comedy.  Admittedly, some of the comedy falls flat and the evident lack of sparkle in the dialogue prevents the film from being entirely satisfying.  Nevertheless, where the comedy works, it works quite well, and some unusual flourishes (such as the bizarre opening sequence) make it an intriguing and diverting piece of Gallic entertainment.

© James Travers 2003

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