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Make It Mine

1986 · 86 min

A light French comedy of romantic mix-ups and mistaken fatherhood, easy to watch and gently amusing rather than laugh-out-loud.

Directed by
Pierre Jolivet
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Clémentine Célarié, Zabou Breitman, Roland Giraud
Overview
Loïc, a chestnut seller, has a mistress who wants a baby. Not daring to admit to her that he had the mumps late in life, he finds other excuses. Until the day he meets Claire, an old girlfriend, who has a little boy. Loïc finds the resemblance between the little boy and himself enormous and is convinced that he is his father...

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Directed by
Pierre Jolivet
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Clémentine Célarié, Zabou Breitman, Roland Giraud
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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • parenthood
    • identity
    • love
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour6
    Realism7
    Romance5
    Tension3
    Darkness2
    Complexity3
    Emotional weight4

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    Genres
    comedy
    Directed by
    Pierre Jolivet
    Written by
    Pierre Jolivet, Olivier Schatzky
    Starring
    Clémentine Célarié, Zabou Breitman, Roland Giraud, Stéphane Freiss, François Berléand, Maaike Jansen, Maka Kotto, Stéphane Duchemin
    Runtime
    86 min
    Country
    France
    Languages
    French

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