:format(jpg):focal(635x365:645x355):watermark(cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ipmgroup/5IDEBLR7ERC5TMAPLOHS63MVNM.png,0,30,0)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ipmgroup/MQVYURIDWNAANNPOHXVD6R5DQE.jpg "“I love America”: Sophie Marceau, in search of lost love")
The Lisa Azuelos – Sophie Marceau tandem is now a rolling business. If a few years have passed since their first collaboration for Lol (2009), the themes and tone of their universe remain recognizable. Even when their playground is out of the ordinary: Amazon Prime Video has indeed produced this new French comedy for its platform.
After being confronted with a thirteen-year-old teenager, in a comedy which seemed to hold up to her the distorted mirror of her own performance in The partySophie Marceau approaches the milestone of 50 years and the question of the quest for a new youth in I love America. The one who remains one of the favorite actresses of the French displays her impeccable plastic, maintained with great reinforcements of healthy food and intensive yoga exercises. At least according to the daily life of her character Lisa.
By leaving Paris to rebuild her life in Los Angeles, Lisa tries to take revenge on a story that had started rather badly in this boarding house where her mother dropped her off one day, without looking back, leaving the little girl with a huge thirst for food. love to fill. These regular returns to his past give depth to the film by delicately defining the lovesickness, the mother’s sickness from which the child suffers. Nothing surprising in this since the director echoes her own distant love story with her absent mother, the singer Marie Laforêt… (The actress Sophie Verbeeck who plays the star on the screen looks like her disturbingly.)
This childhood album, which Lisa leafs through unconsciously, creates a real discrepancy with the rest of the plot – light as champagne, without attachments or consequences – not necessarily in tune. If it is not in Lisa’s will not to give up on love even when it seems absent.
In An encounter (2014) too, Lisa Azuelos capitalized on her actress’s enormous potential for seduction in the face of a visibly troubled François Cluzet. The film already addressed the question of age and the difference that is sometimes difficult to assume in an intimate relationship. Betting on the possibility of meeting great people at any age, the new feature film carries its share of (American) dreams.
We regret, however, that it does not really dig into the question of dating apps, even to make people laugh or smile, and that it does not offer a better place to the character of Luka (Djanis Bouzyani seen in You deserve a love), the gay friend and confidant who deserved more digging. The result is a solar and inoffensive romantic comedy, which will charm fans of the actress without revolutionizing the genre. Even if its source, its roots, remain unique.
RomCom By Lisa Azuelos Script Lisa Azuelos With Sophie Marceau, Djanis Bouzyani, Colin Woodell Duration 1h42. Available on Prime Video from 11/03
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