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Your support makes all the difference.Eric Rohmer and Woody Allen aren't such bad influences for a young French writer-director to call on, but Emmanuel Mouret's Parisian romance lacks the rough grain of simple human truthfulness.
Mouret plays David, a decent, slightly dull teacher of the French horn who finds a new flatmate in the kooky, garrulous Anne (Frédérique Bel) and a new soulmate in reticent Julia (Fanny Valette). His courtship of the latter runs into trouble when they go off on a romantic weekend and she falls for someone entirely different – a situation that becomes irritating and implausible when David resigns himself to playing the go-between.
He's meant to be a cuddly nice guy, but seems merely a drip. The metaphor of his teaching the French horn – the orchestra's most difficult instrument – is lost in the script's welter of bum notes.
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