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Overview
Tu peux garder un secret? is a French comedy romance film first released in 2008,
directed by Alexandre Arcady.
The film stars Pierre Arditi, Juliette Arnaud, Corinne Puget, Christine Anglio and Fanny Cottençon.
Our overall rating for this film is: very poor.
Synopsis
Delphine clearly wasn’t thinking of her longterm career plans when she
let slip, in front of two of her colleagues, that she had been sleeping
with her boss. Within 24 hours, this titbit is known by just
about everyone in the firm she works for, including her boss, who has
never even heard of her. To make matters worse, her boss, a
married man, has indeed been having a torrid extra-marital affair, but
with another woman. Is this the end for little Delphine?
Film Review
Tu peux garder un secret?
brings together, for the first time on the big screen, the three stars
of the Parisian stage hit Arrête
de pleurer Pénélope and its sequel - Christine
Anglio, Juliette Arnaud and Corinne Puget - but, alas, their combined
efforts can hardly keep afloat this travesty of a Gallic rom-com for
five minutes. Alexandre Arcady’s latest cinematic Titanic
manages to hit the proverbial iceberg barely before a single line of
dialogue has been spoken, not that this comes as a surprise. We
can form a pretty good idea of what we are in for from the woefully
unimaginative opening sequence - Sex
in the City Lite (so Lite that you fill a hot air balloon with
it).Clichés by the skipload (Arcady must have been offered a job lot), jokes so laboured and banal that you can see them coming from the other side of the Atlantic, and situations so hackneyed, facile and exaggerated that you wonder whether the poor benighted souls who wrote the script have ever visited Planet Earth. Certainly, the film’s portrayal of corporate cultural and male-female relationships bears scant, if any, approximation to reality. With its three talented and charismatic lead performers, Tu peux garder un secret? had the potential to be an entertaining romp that might even have had appeal outside France, but the opportunity was squandered and what we get instead is the most facile lowbrow comedy imaginable. Not only isn’t the film remotely funny (except possibly for the one brief scene with Michaël Youn), it totally fails to hold the attention and you feel embarrassed just by watching it. Just what an actor of the calibre of Pierre Arditi is doing mixed up in this fiasco is anyone’s guess... © filmsdefrance.com 2011 Write a review for this film... User Comments
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