Review of Une vie à t'attendre

Chris Thompson, co-screenwriter here is not only the daughter of Daniele Thompson but also the grandson of Gerard Oury which, to French Cinema buffs - or buffs of French Cinema - is very tasty lineage if anybody asks you. This is only the third screenplay he has worked on and the first two, La Buche and Decolage Horaire, were directed by mum, Daniele, so without her at the helm we can perhaps overlook the fact that at the end of this movie he allows Patrick Bruel to LEAVE Nathalie Baye, or, to put it another way, he invests Bruel's character with terminal idiocy. No ONE, even in a movie, is going to walk away from Nathalie Baye because not only is she one of the lovliest actresses in French cinema she is also one of the wittiest, most stylish, warmest, chicest to run out of adjectives. Nevertheless that's what this cretin does. Go figure. Apart from that this one is out of the right box and it's always great to see Baye - just as it is to see Huppert, Bouquet, Binoche, Kiberlain, Carre, etc - and, for good measure, we have Danielle Darrieux still, in her ninth decade, showing how it's done. Plot? Glad you asked. It's about relationships. It's French. Say no more. 8/10 (11/10 for Baye)