Mi-temps

Another boring and predictable french social realist movie. Hadn't it been for the actress Julie Durand, who does what she can with the stereotyped script, I wouldn't have been able to watch this through until its predictable ending. Why is it that it seems like so many young french directors place the action of their films in the "lower classes of society" when they want to hide that they have nothing to say and not even an original way of saying it? Where is the new young french cinema that is formally daring and philosophically interesting? Sadly, not in this film.