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If you like French films with lingering shots of a tree, where you're not sure why you're being shown a particular scene, where you're not really all that drawn to any of the characters, and you spend the entire film trying to work out whether you will ever be shown any connection between two separate groups of characters, then this is the film for you.

I was looking at my watch after fifteen minutes, just to check how long it had run without really showing anything at all. I'm afraid I like a bit more of a storyline than this, and less open questions left to the imagination of the viewer. I was thinking simply "Why?" after five minutes, and frankly the question was never answered. What was the director trying to show? I have absolutely no idea. Very good performance by Florence Loiret, though - I hope we soon see her again in something more worth watching.

Just a good French comedy drama exploring characters situations, different plots, chronic of modern life concerning people of today. Everything sounds real, true, close to actual life, but it remains a bit boring, flat, uninspired. You have the feeling that the director or screenwriter have nothing to say and do thei best to fill up the movie length. So, if I were you, I would concentrate not on the plot - if there is a plot - but on the characters play, as the likes of Jean-Pierre Daroussin, the typical basic French but not racist, not red neck, not narrow minded, no, just the a bit sad, disillusioned dude for whom you feel empathy for.