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cert 12A, 110 minutes. £ 5.00 director: Agnes Jaoui with Agnes Jaoui/Marilou Berry/Jean-Pierre Bacri |
This exquisitely refined French comedy-of-manners focuses on haughty writer Etienne Cassard, an appallingly vain and egocentric monster who is surrounded by lackeys and sycophants, and is particularly indifferent to the needs of his plain, frumpish daughter. Liberated by love however, she is able to claim a life of her own. A deft and subtle ensemble piece that cuts away at hypocrisy and pretension like a skilfully wielded scalpel. Superb. “Exemplary cinema in the classical tradition” Time Out |
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