Wow! Such a good movie.

Some things I liked some I did not.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Alas, my Summary isn't going to work completely in either French or English: The French pronounce Ann Fontaine's surname Fontenay which means they're unlikely to get the Trevi word-play but on the other hand coin is French for corner so a by-lingual person will twig that I'm referring to the three corners Fontaine brings together here, not so much doctor, lawyer, Indian chief as lawyer, weather girl and bodyguard. Billy Wilder has a lot to answer for on several counts but not least for his masterpiece (or one of them) The Apartment which is a laugh-out-loud comedy for the first hour then switches effortlessly to drama and because it was Wilder he made it look so easy that everybody and his uncle Max thinks he can do it too. Ann Fontaine isn't everybody; with twelve complete films under her belt and a thirteenth in the Cutting Rooms she's a formidable talent, one of an elite group of female French directors who have given me personally hours of pleasure - I'm referring to, in any order you like, Marion Vernoux, Nicole Garcia, Valerie Lemercier, Toni Marshall, Danielle Thompson, Agnes Jaoui, Noemie Chomsky, Diane Kurys et al. If this isn't quite top-drawer Fontaine it'll do until another top-drawer Fontaine comes along. Fabrice Luchini, that most quirky of French actors both on stage and screen (and rumored to be engaged to Fontaine, who may herself still be married or may not have been married as the case may be - and you think THIS film is ambiguous) is at the head of proceedings as a top avocat shipped to Monaco to defend the mother of a gangster (Stephane Audran wasted) on a charge of murdering a gigolo; because of the delicate nature of the case the gangster supplies Luchini with a bodyguard who may or may not develop a sexual attraction to Luchini; the third element is a local weather girl with a moral compass that makes Sadie Thompson look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Inevitably the up-tight lawyer allows himself to be seduced by the bimbo half his age and equally inevitably it ends in tears. Though I enjoyed it, as I have all the Fontaine films I have seen I wouldn't in this case (unlike the others) want to see it again.

The story does not make any sense.It seems like the author has just put together disparate ideas for a style exercise - "If we get Fabrice Luchini we can make people think it's a comedy and then they will be surprised it is not".But it is not anything else either. Why would a reality show person impress so much a lawyer who is supposed to be world savvy? Because he thinks he plays in a comedy?Then apparently the only reason it turns to drama is because he has sexuality issues (as the bodyguard in the film puts it - apparently he never had sex before).And the real drama is the bodyguard's character - but for reasons that are left in the dark.....In the end I felt a sense of waste of time and (production) money. Not even the beautiful landscape and colors manage to salvage anything of the lack of meaning of the movie. Making a mess with nice music and colors (Monaco) to make it seem it has sense (and style) it's not what a movie is supposed to be about.

My laugh meter was in constant activity throughout this film, one of the most entertaining French comedies of recent years. Anne Fontaine's witty script and assured direction gave me a lot of pleasure. The first scene between Fabrice Luchini and Hélène de Saint-Père--that amorous banter out of Marivaux--set the tone for me. Luchini is at the top of his form now, much stronger than he was in La Discrète or Beaumarchais l'insolent. He portrays the erotic confusion of the middle-aged man so well. Roschdy Zem, so often used as ethnic content in his films, here provides us with the (almost) definitive portrait of the loyal servant with his own agenda (cf. Dirk Bogarde in The Servant). Louise Bourgoin has a great natural comic flair that will serve her well in future roles (she outshines that other comic weather girl Michelle Pfeiffer in Up Close and Personal).Anne Fontaine has given me so much satisfaction over the last ten years: I think of Nettoyage à sec, Comment J'ai tué mon père, Nathalie... She is a stalwart of the French film industry.

this is a lightweight comedy that is implausible on many fronts. The lawyer is successful, but way too old for the girl, so it's not clear why she is interested in him. The lawyer is taken in by her (she's stunning), but he throws all caution to the wind and does many things that are out of character, really stupid things. The movie is lightly entertaining with the comedic elements, and with the amazing looks of the girl, who flaunts her body and looks in every scene she's in.SPOILER: Then the movie decides to get serious and it lost me completely. the two men in the film can't resist her, but they both think she's dangerous - "a witch". I won't tell you what happens, but you could easily see this film as a caution against female sexual freedom with the two men punishing her in the end. When it gets away from the comedy, it's a mess.