12 ans d'âge (2013)
Directed by Frédéric Proust

Film Review

Screenwriter Frédéric Proust makes a far from auspicious directing debut with this limp comedy, which soon stumbles after a promising start through a lack of original ideas and a distinct deficit of humour.  Acting giants Berléand and Chesnais are well-suited to spar off one another but both are ill-served by a lacklustre script which fails to make either of their characters remotely convincing.  Lacking the ambition of even a modest television movie, the film is content to wallow in lame caricature and soon becomes tedious and predictable.

Film Synopsis

Charles and Pierrot are inseparable.  The day Charles begins his retirement could not have come sooner.  Now, the two friends can spend their days together and put into practice their motto: 'Make the most of life and laugh at everything.'  Thanks to their wild imagination, the days of their second adolescence will be mad and eventful, much to the distress of the women in their lives...