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‘Trois Amies’ Review: Emmanuel Mouret’s Romantic Comedy Is A Relentlessly Middlebrow Exploration Of Love And Life In Lyon – Venice Film Festival
Emmanuel Mouret’s romantic comedy 'Trois Amies' is a relentlessly middlebrow exploration of love and life in Lyon.
The French like these kinds of films, and their big-name directors stuff them with their equally famous friends, leading to waffly ensemble pieces that can be as endearingly cheerful as Julie Delpy’s family memoir Skylab(2011) or as insufferable as Guillaume Canet’s Big Chill ripoff Little White Lies(2011). Trois Amies, however, is ghastly reminder of the time that the once impressively arthouse Alain Resnais turned his hand to dinner theater after encountering British farceur Alan Ayckbourn. Things become so ridiculous that Alice dreams a phone number, calls it up, and falls in love with a famous painter whose “distinctive” works look like something you might see in the window of a charity shop, every time you walk past it.
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