L'homme qu'on aimait trop

(2014) In The Name of My Daughter/ L'homme qu'on aimait trop (In French with English subtitles) BIO DRAMA/ MYSTERY

Adapted from the book "Une femme face à la Mafia" by Jean-Charles Le Roux(2014) and Renée Le Roux, co- written and directed by André Téchiné that has daughter, Agnès Le Roux (Adèle Haenel) of a casino owner, Renée Le Roux (Catherine Deneuve) arriving at the airport with lawyer, Maurice Agnelet (Guillaume Canet) waiting to pick her up from her trip from Africa. And before Agnès goes to see her mother, she then asks Maurice she wants to go for a swim, and that is exactly what happened. By the time she arrives, Maurice informs Renée that if she wants to see her that she may need to see her daughter in the car as she does not want to come inside. When the mom does go out to see Agnès, she was already dozed up waiting for her, but is woken up as soon as she arrives. On the following day, Agnès informs her mom she not only wants to open up her own store, but she also wants her mom to sell the casino as well as collect what is owed from her dad's inheritance. Except that when Agnès asked her, it was bad timing as Renée had to shell out five million to a customer. And as it turned out by her lawyer, Maurice it was by four people who have a questionable track records. This also puts Renée to make the decision to kick her current chief executive out and to make her advocate her to take his place. Maurice wants to be managing director, except that Renée tells him she wants to think about it. As a result, it creates a rift since Agnès is becoming too comfortable with Maurice.

I was very involved with the first half of the movie, but as soon as it delved into the complicated mess between the mother, Renée her daughter, Agnès and the lawyer, Maurice is when the movie kind of bogs down. I had no idea it was based on Agnès Le Roux, the 29-year-old heiress of one of the country's biggest casinos, the Palais de la Méditerranée in the Riviera city of Nice.