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C'est la vie!

2017 · 115 min

A chaotic, funny, and ultimately warm backstage farce that keeps you amused with its escalating disasters and eccentric characters.

Directed by
Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul Rouve
Overview
Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible. But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max's colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette, seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional duties while openly flirting with a much younger server. It's going to be a very long night… especially once the groom's aerial serenade gets underway.

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Directed by
Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul Rouve
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • class
  • love
  • family
  • betrayal
Places
  • single country house
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour7
Realism8
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
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Starring
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Cinematography
David Chizallet
Runtime
115 min
Country
France
Languages
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