CRITICISM – The actress finds Lisa Azuelos, the filmmaker who directed her in 2009, for a new comedy, in romantic mode this time, to discover on Prime Video.
Sepia images. The grief of a little girl abandoned to a nanny by her mother, a singer with beautiful clear eyes, always on tour, and much more concerned with her career than with her offspring. Today, the little girl is fifty years old, a career as a filmmaker, the desire to start a new life in Los Angeles and the features of the always radiant Sophie Marceau. The eternal heroine of La Boum (1980), work declined with accuracy and humor in a “parental” version in LOL (2009) by Lisa Azuelos, finds the latter for I Love Americaavailable on Amazon Prime Video.
The film is first and foremost a romantic comedy. Because if Lisa (Sophie Marceau therefore) is working on new projects, it is above all her private life that the screenplay is interested in. With a gay best friend with a hectic love life (Djanis Bouzyani – Madame Claude, you deserve a loverur – quite irresistible, the good surprise of the film), learning about dating sites for the fifty-somethings, crappy “dates” and young Prince Charming (Colin Woodell) at stake. But I Love America is also autobiographical. Because Lisa Azuelos is the daughter of Marie Laforêt. Placed, then in boarding school during her childhood, she suffered cruelly from her lack of affection before eventually accepting the life choices of an independent woman and forgiving her, at her death, as we see on the screen, to be at peace with herself.
Djanis Bouzyani, quite irresistible in the role of the best gay friend. Darren Michaels
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We would have loved to laugh at this rom com and be moved by this woman’s painful path to resilience. But if I love America respects the codes of romantic comedy, he only keeps hackneyed clichés. And when the dialogues try their hand at crudeness (yet welcome to the warm My babyby the same director, with Sandrine Kiberlain), it’s a disaster: “On the sites, each profile is a disco ball of the same humanity, two balls in fact», «You got more than 500 likes in one night, it’s a tsunabites“… Just as difficult to be touched when a work strikes so many ready-made phrases like irrefutable truths: “Dating sites make us forget about loneliness, but isn’t the real encounter with oneself?» or «Every day is an opportunity to give birth to yourself, in pain or in sweetness“. A last one for fun? “America always tasted like scrambled eggs, disco and my dad to me.», Launches the heroine. To see perhaps in the second degree?!
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