Changement d'adresse

Changement d'adresse (2006)
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Country: France

Rating: 6,8/10 Runtime: 85 Language: french Country: France Color: color IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0759509/ Director: Emmanuel Mouret Cast: Emmanuel Mouret: David Frédérique Bel: Anne Fanny Valette: Julia Dany Brillant: Julien Ariane Ascaride: mère de Julia Description: A musician sharing an apartment, seems to fall in love for a student he gives private lessons to. His flatmate (a girl) thinks she's in love with one of the customer at the copyshop she manages. The love story of the student for the musician doesn't evolve as expected, ... ----- Sorry and warning people! The value of this movies is much in the dialogues and the wordplays. For instance in the first scene between David and Anne, the talk about his job, which is horn player, the french word for "horn" is "cor", and it's exactly the same phonetic than "corps" which means "body". He offers to show her his "cor" , etc. It's a finely carved little gem, that french speakers will appreciate for its originality even if they don't like the closed non-action, stage-like, kind of style. ----- A reasonably adequate (IMHO) review: http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Changement_d_adresse_2006_rev.html "Mouret surpasses himself not only in his direction (he is clearly a keen student of Eric Rohmer), but also in the quality of his screenplay, which subtly reveals an acute sensitivity for human relationships and an absolute genius for comic word play. The jokes are great (especially the double entendres, which are so sharp you can almost shave with them), but the characters are also well-drawn and totally believable. Much of the charm of the film lies in the understated acting performances of Mouret and his three co-stars, Frédérique Bel, Fanny Valette and Dany Brillant. It is a terrific ensemble which makes the most of Mouret’s great script, bringing not just a seemingly endless series of smiles and laughs, but also a sense of realism and genuine poignancy – albeit from beneath a thin veil of quirky naivety. Changement d’adresse is unquestionably one of the most satisfying French film comedies in recent years.