Jalouse (2017)
(Jealous)
Country: FR
Technical: col 107m
Director: David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos
Cast: Karin Viard, Dara Tombroff, Anne Dorval, Bruno Todeschini, Anaïs Demoustier
Synopsis:
A menopausal single mother, whose daughter is competing for ballet school, compares her own level of happiness to others' and suddenly begins to feel and behave uncharitably towards everyone around her.
Review:
As with their earlier film, Delicacy, the Foenkinos take one idea and allow it to dominate their scenario, though with less comedic flair than Monsieur de Molière. (Essentially what we have here is La jalouse imaginaire ou L'Ecole des ménopausées.) Not that Mademoiselle Viard does not play her role with aplomb as a volatile curmudgeon, but her antics are as likely to generate acute embarrassment as 'le fou rire' (the scenes with her GP work the best). Again, since some consequences of her malaise bring about genuine irreversible damage, and since there really is no dramatic cure for her predicament, the makers have pretty much written themselves into a corner by the time their protagonist declares to her neighbour, none too convincingly: 'I am not jealous.'
(Jealous)
Country: FR
Technical: col 107m
Director: David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos
Cast: Karin Viard, Dara Tombroff, Anne Dorval, Bruno Todeschini, Anaïs Demoustier
Synopsis:
A menopausal single mother, whose daughter is competing for ballet school, compares her own level of happiness to others' and suddenly begins to feel and behave uncharitably towards everyone around her.
Review:
As with their earlier film, Delicacy, the Foenkinos take one idea and allow it to dominate their scenario, though with less comedic flair than Monsieur de Molière. (Essentially what we have here is La jalouse imaginaire ou L'Ecole des ménopausées.) Not that Mademoiselle Viard does not play her role with aplomb as a volatile curmudgeon, but her antics are as likely to generate acute embarrassment as 'le fou rire' (the scenes with her GP work the best). Again, since some consequences of her malaise bring about genuine irreversible damage, and since there really is no dramatic cure for her predicament, the makers have pretty much written themselves into a corner by the time their protagonist declares to her neighbour, none too convincingly: 'I am not jealous.'
(Jealous)
Country: FR
Technical: col 107m
Director: David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos
Cast: Karin Viard, Dara Tombroff, Anne Dorval, Bruno Todeschini, Anaïs Demoustier
Synopsis:
A menopausal single mother, whose daughter is competing for ballet school, compares her own level of happiness to others' and suddenly begins to feel and behave uncharitably towards everyone around her.
Review:
As with their earlier film, Delicacy, the Foenkinos take one idea and allow it to dominate their scenario, though with less comedic flair than Monsieur de Molière. (Essentially what we have here is La jalouse imaginaire ou L'Ecole des ménopausées.) Not that Mademoiselle Viard does not play her role with aplomb as a volatile curmudgeon, but her antics are as likely to generate acute embarrassment as 'le fou rire' (the scenes with her GP work the best). Again, since some consequences of her malaise bring about genuine irreversible damage, and since there really is no dramatic cure for her predicament, the makers have pretty much written themselves into a corner by the time their protagonist declares to her neighbour, none too convincingly: 'I am not jealous.'