Euphemistically speaking, “seasoned” feels like the most apt way to describe lounge lizard Johnny Hallyday’s latest character, Jacques Kaminsky, a weary war photog who wraps his high-impact career snapping cow portraits from a posh Rhone-Alps chalet in Claude Lelouch’s shamelessly sentimental (and equally self-serving) “We Love You, You Bastard,” a paternal reconciliation fantasy which this corniest of French directors dedicates to his daughters. After years of familial negligence, the leathery old so-and-so spends his last lap around the sun hoping to make amends to his four girls, each born to a different mother and named after a different season.
Suitable only for little old ladies and Hallyday lovers, this baffling blend of genres begins as a romance (the first buds of spring), shifts into family melodrama (hot summer nights) and ends quite unexpectedly with a murder mystery (one that resolves itself in the dead of winter). There’s...
Suitable only for little old ladies and Hallyday lovers, this baffling blend of genres begins as a romance (the first buds of spring), shifts into family melodrama (hot summer nights) and ends quite unexpectedly with a murder mystery (one that resolves itself in the dead of winter). There’s...
- 4/2/2014
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety - Film News
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