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  • Summary: She lives with her son and her husband in a well-to-do apartment opposite the chic Luxembourg gardens… He lives alone with his son in the back of a van. She is the director of a prestigious contemporary art foundation… He lives off odd jobs and social security benefits. She graduated after 7 years at university… He almost spent 7 years behind bars. She is on familiar terms with the Ministry of Culture and Arts… He is on familiar terms with each and every alcoholic beverage that happens to cross his path. She enjoys intellectual debates… He enjoys casual sex with large bosomed bedfellows. They are poles apart… and can’t stand the sight of one another. Besides, they should never have met, but their children are inseparable… In the end, they’ll eventually come to understand why. (Strand Releasing) Expand
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  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    Oct 19, 2012
    75
    No one loves a broad comedy like the French, but Gallic touches of restraint tend to keep such light entertainment pleasing rather than blundering.
  2. Reviewed by: Chris Packham
    Oct 17, 2012
    50
    Whether this is an argument for or against marriage probably depends on the viewer's own experience.
  3. Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    Oct 18, 2012
    30
    Its tepid satire of art world pretensions culminates with a visual dirty joke that is mildly amusing but still not worth the wait.

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