Nos plus belles vacances (2012) Directed by Philippe Lellouche
Comedy / Drama
Film Review
For his feature debut as a director, Philippe Lellouche (the older
brother of actor Gilles Lellouche) revisits his happy childhood in this
shameless nostalgia piece set during that memorably long hot summer of
1976. It's a familiar subject, and Lellouche's film, whilst
charming for the most part, adds absolutely nothing to what has already
been said by at least a hundred other film directors.
Whilst the designers deserve credit for giving it an authentic 1970s
feel, the film's portrayal of Brittany is so shockingly caricatured
that it soon becomes slightly nauseating. Nos plus belles vacances is a
sincerely crafted piece of cinema, but lacking in depth, humour and
originality it is instantly forgettable.
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Film Synopsis
When she discovers that her husband Claude is having an adulterous affair,
Isabelle insists they take a holiday together in her home village in Brittany.
It is 1976, and when the couple take their reconciliation holiday, in the
company of their two sons and Isabelle's mother, it is during one of the
longest heat waves on record. The day after their arrival, they
meet up with two couples whom they can count amount their friends - Bernard
and Bernadette, and Jacky and Marie-France. The little village of Rocher
Abraham isn't the most accommodating of places to visit, as Claude and his
entourage soon discover. It doesn't help that he is an Algerian Jew,
who settled in France in the early 1960s...
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