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Whatever It Takes

2026 · 100 min

It feels like watching two very different people slowly finding a comfortable rhythm together.

Directed by
Jean-Baptiste Léonetti
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Sandrine Kiberlain, Pierre Lottin, Louise Labèque
Overview
Rose and Jean have nothing in common. Rose is a force of nature who faces all her problems with a disarming joie de vivre. She lives with her 3 children upstairs in the family hotel that no longer belongs to her. They're not poor, they're broke... but only temporarily. Jean is a solitary, taciturn man who has buried his big heart under layers of modesty and resignation. When he arrives in this unusual family, however, he quickly becomes indispensable. What did they expect before they met? Probably nothing. He soon becomes indispensable.

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Directed by
Jean-Baptiste Léonetti
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Sandrine Kiberlain, Pierre Lottin, Louise Labèque
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • loneliness
  • class
Places
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
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Action1
Horror1
Humour4
Realism6
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Jean-Baptiste Léonetti
Written by
Jean-Baptiste Léonetti
Starring
Sandrine Kiberlain, Pierre Lottin, Louise Labèque, Alexis Rosenstiehl, Alma Ngoc, Mélissa Izquierdo, Mogamed Bechiev, Frans Boyer
Cinematography
David Nissen
Runtime
100 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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