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With rom-coms like this, who needs warcrimes? This is the most cruel, most contrived romantic comedy I have ever had the displeasure to endure. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

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With rom-coms like this, who needs warcrimes? Or cancer? Or toast that falls to the floor buttered side down? I hadn’t previously thought that there might be an arms race to find the most horrific concept possible that might be labeled, with a straight face, “romantic” and “funny,” but maybe such a race is on. If so, it has been won byA Perfect Plan, the most cruel, most contrived romantic comedy I have ever had the displeasure to endure.

The genre works — or doesn’t — because you get so enrapt in the possibility of happiness for a couple that you forgive all the strained...

Pascal Chaumeil’s preceding endeavour Heartbreaker, is one of the more creative, enchanting and charmingly idealistic French comedies in recent years. Expectations had therefore been raised for the similarly-toned A Perfect Plan – however with the disastrous comedy A Long Way Down, released somewhere in between, any such fervent anticipation has since been lowered dramatically, which, as it turns out, was for good reason.

The film stars Diane Kruger as Isabelle, a woman so desperate to break her family curse of first marriages always ending in disaster – that she sets off to find a short-term husband– to free herself of the spell before marrying her one true love, Pierre (Robert Plagnol). Initially, she flies to Denmark, where it’s legal to get divorced instantly after a wedding, as she intends on paying somebody to marry and divorce her in a day. However after she gets stood up, she sets her sights...

Taking care of some overseas promotions, Diane Kruger showed up at a photocall for her new flick “Der Naechste, Bitte!” in Berlin, Germany today (January 31).

The “Inglourious Basterds” babe looked top-notch as she hammed it up for the shutterbugs and press at the Hotel de Rome prior to the film’s premiere.

Also called “Un Plan Parfait,” the movie also stars Dany Boon, Alice Pol, Robert Plagnol, and Jonathan Cohen.

Per the synopsis, “A successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the alter with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.”...