Lolo

Un film français ! Co-writer, director, and starring Julie Delpy! She's Violette, in the fashion industry. She meets a fisherman, and accepts an invitation to a party. Turns out he's really a nice computer guy, and they start dating. But there's a hitch... Violette's son Lolo (Vincent Lacoste) doesn't like the new guy, so he starts doing things to bust them up. And he makes his own mother so paranoid, she starts acting weird around the new guy, JeanRene (Dany Boon). After this goes on for a while, we can only hope that Violette stops blaming JeanRene. Of course, the son is loving every minute of the misunderstandings and screw-ups. Will mom ever catch on? Delpy was an actor for YEARS before she began directing. Shared oscar nominations for Before Midnight and Before Sunset. This one is okay. Like a (really long) episode of three's company. So many misunderstandings... orchestrated by the son.

Rather amusing this story of a son who confuses his mother's lover with terrible blows. Benign but which degenerate. A case of divorce(s). It reminded me of comedies from the 70s.

On holiday in the south of France, chic Parisian sophisticate Violette meets life-loving IT geek Jean-René. Against all odds, there's a real chemistry between them and at the end of the summer, Jean-René wastes no time in joining his beloved his in Paris. But there's trouble in paradise, and a third party swiftly appears to shatter the couple's idyll: Lolo, Violette's ultra-possessive 19-year-old son, who is determined to get rid of his mother's lover. , whatever it takes...

We know that a film is French when it inevitably has xenophobic jokes, whether against Africans, Latinos and/or Arabs, it doesn't matter, there always is, despite this misguided lapse, the comedy is delicious, we accompany the spoiled son with rancidity and with a trace of psychopathic character, very cliché, but with a softness and naturalness that enchant, French cinema always presents us with simple and captivating works... Well Good...

Violette (Julie Delpy) is a 45 year old modern Parisen high-powered fashion producer. She is divorced with teen son Eloi nicknamed Lolo. She can't find a good man anywhere and has given up. Her flirtatious friend Ariane pulls her into a spa vacation in the country. They meet up a couple of guys and she starts dating naive nice guy Jean-René Graves. He's also divorced with a child and little experience in dating. Outwardly, Lolo is chummy with JR but secretly, he's working to sabotage the relationship.

Anything with Delpy is elevated by her presence. She needs a charismatic lead to be her opposite. The character may be bland but the actor shouldn't be. Lolo's evil ways are funny at first but the ending turns too dark. As the director, Delpy needs to maintain the tone better than that. Lolo becomes less comedic and more psycho. This has Delpy and a little fun but not that great.

I'm a Julie Delpy fan, "Two days in Paris" is one of my favourite movies of all times. This film, however, is impossible to watch.

It's incredibly predictable, the humour is silly and you've seen all the gags in plenty of (bad) films before.

The storyline is not credible at all. Even if you're not looking for sophisticated humour, just want some slapstick laughs, this film is simply not very funny. I watched it in the dubbed version, maybe it's slightly better in the French original, although to be honest, I don't think so, given how bad the storyline and the jokes are.

The acting is OK, but it can't save the film.