Jérôme Varenne, a French financier, lives and works in Shanghai with Chen-Li, his life and business partner. One day, during a short stay in Paris, while paying a call to his mother, he is ...
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Title: Belles familles (2015)
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Jérôme Varenne
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Louise Deffe
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Suzanne Varenne
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Forence Deffe
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Jean-Michel Varenne
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Pierre Cotteret - le maire
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Chen-Lin
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Maître Ribain
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Martine
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Peter
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La secrétaire de mairie
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Jérôme Varenne, a French financier, lives and works in Shanghai with Chen-Li, his life and business partner. One day, during a short stay in Paris, while paying a call to his mother, he is very displeased to learn from her and his hated brother, that the family house in Ambray is going to be sold. Jerome decides to go to the town where he grew up to see what is going on. Little does he know how eventful his escapade will be. Little does he know that it will change his life from soup to nuts... Written by Guy Bellinger
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pianist | chinese woman | piano concerto | music festival | london england |Certificate:
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14 October 2015 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Famillies (Belles Familles) has been my greatest TIFF 2015 disappointment, so far. I attended the world premiere last night expecting at least an average film, given the names behind the film. Alas, this was a disappointment on many levels. The film was formulaic to say the least. It is clear that Rappeneau was hoping for commercial success with this half baked film, as it appears to have been created to appeal to the masses with convenient unrealistic turns of events that favour the main protagonists. The character development leaves much to be desired. Mathieu Amalric is usually a great actor. It is hard to understand why he would have chosen this role. Louise played by Marine Vacth was understandably gorgeous, but extremely unlikeable.It was hard to understand why the filmmaker expected us to sympathize with her and to root for her. Perhaps, being beautiful is all that matters in France. I did not care about any of the characters by the end of the film and that is a big deal because I tend to have an almost pathological propensity to care about anything and everything, including fictional characters. Me not caring is a huge accomplishment on the filmmaker's part, albeit not in a good way.
The film illustrates infidelity as one of the greatest manifestations of love. This is over-simplistic, tiresome and disrespectful to the intelligence of audiences. Moreover, the final outcome of the film is quite racist, if one were to take a step back and put the narrative in perspective (There were other hints of racism earlier in the film, so this did not come as a complete surprise).
If you're going to TIFF 2015: Do NOT see this film! If you already have a ticket for one of its screenings, do yourself a favour and exchange it, before it's too late and you waste almost 2 precious hours of your life that you won't be getting back. Watching this yesterday was an excruciating experience. I cringed for most of it and barely managed to sit through it.