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Je pense à vous
2006 Comedy / Drama
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Credits
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Director: Pascal Bonitzer
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Script: Pascal Bonitzer, Marina de Van
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Photo: Marie Spencer
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Music: Alexei Aigui
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Cast: Edouard Baer (Hermann),
Géraldine Pailhas (Diane),
Marina de Van (Anne),
Charles Berling (Worms),
Hippolyte Girardot (Antoine Carré),
Philippe Caroit (Maître Rivière),
Dominique Constanza (Geneviève),
Dinara Drukarova (Macha),
Agathe Bonitzer (Fille Hermann),
Iliana Lolitch (Myriam)
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Country: France
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Language: French
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Runtime: 82 min
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Aka: Made in Paris
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Summary
Parisian publisher Hermann faces a dilemma when one of his authors,
Worms, writes a book describing, in intimate detail, a love affair with
a woman named Diane. Hermann intends publishing the book, even
though the aforementioned Diane now lives with him and is unlikely to
take kindly to Worms’s account of his former affair with her.
Life becomes more difficult for Hermann when Worms sends Diane a
photograph of him in the embrace of another woman, Anne, who happens to
be Hermann’s previous lover...
Review
To date, acclaimed screenwriter and one-time film critic Pascal
Bonitzer has surprisingly found little success as a director, despite a
promising debut in the 1990s. After the disappointing and
frankly bizarre Petites coupures (2003) comes
the even more lacklustre Je pense
à vous, a pretty inept attempt at the a middle class
comedy of manners. Even though the film boasts an impressive
cast, it is singularly lacking in charm, conviction and narrative
thrust. The characters are tedious stereotypes, the jokes are
tired (and repeated ad nauseum),
and the situations so familiar that you can hear yourself reciting the
dialogue before it’s spoken. Bonitzer is a great writer,
with the potential to achieve so much as a director, and yet so little
of this is evident in this depressingly trite offering.
© James Travers 2008
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