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Violette, a 40-year old workaholic with a career in the fashion industry falls for a provincial computer geek, Jean-Rene, while on a spa retreat with her best friend.Violette, a 40-year old workaholic with a career in the fashion industry falls for a provincial computer geek, Jean-Rene, while on a spa retreat with her best friend.Violette, a 40-year old workaholic with a career in the fashion industry falls for a provincial computer geek, Jean-Rene, while on a spa retreat with her best friend.
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I've seen Lolo before. A young man raised by a single mother does not like it when eligible suitors comes sniffing around his MILF. So when a IT tech becomes his mother's love interest, Lolo stops at nothing to break these two apart.
The french version of this story starts out as just a young man talking crap to convince his mom that this man is not right for her. Then it escalates to the extreme when Lolo makes The IT tech his victim. That's were the comedy comes it as well.
It's not different from an American comedy in how it escalates, except that the this french film realizes it does not need to got too over the top with the comedy to be laugh out loud funny.
If you ever seen such movie as Cyrus or Mr. Woodcock than you'll like this movie. It's the same style of comedy.
One exception is the focus on the perspective of Julie Delpy's character, Violette, a 40 year old woman who still in the dating game looking for love. I seen the movie done from Lolo's perspective as the selfish son who will do anything to keep the cord attached to his mother, and I've seen it from Jean-René's perceptive as a man dating a woman too good to be true, and then discovers she got some baggage she loves too much too see as baggage. Violette's view does bring some freshness to the movie.
It was a subtle comedy, at least by American standards, but it is very effective.
The french version of this story starts out as just a young man talking crap to convince his mom that this man is not right for her. Then it escalates to the extreme when Lolo makes The IT tech his victim. That's were the comedy comes it as well.
It's not different from an American comedy in how it escalates, except that the this french film realizes it does not need to got too over the top with the comedy to be laugh out loud funny.
If you ever seen such movie as Cyrus or Mr. Woodcock than you'll like this movie. It's the same style of comedy.
One exception is the focus on the perspective of Julie Delpy's character, Violette, a 40 year old woman who still in the dating game looking for love. I seen the movie done from Lolo's perspective as the selfish son who will do anything to keep the cord attached to his mother, and I've seen it from Jean-René's perceptive as a man dating a woman too good to be true, and then discovers she got some baggage she loves too much too see as baggage. Violette's view does bring some freshness to the movie.
It was a subtle comedy, at least by American standards, but it is very effective.
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.
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.
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.
I liked the freshness of this film. The actors' game is adapted And rather successful: Dany Boon and Julie Delpy are all very pleasant And sympathetic, while Vincent Lacoste still plays The role of the unbearable boy. Good little comedy that begins.
The idea of departure is interesting: the bobo that takes of love for A "provincial" in Biarritz, it does not matter if he is not a member of Social circle. However, I found the end disappointing: he Can not succeed modestly in the province, we find it rich Computer engineer at the city ... Bof, we will go back for an analysis and Interesting conclusion, far from the usual stereotypes about the search for happiness.
The idea of departure is interesting: the bobo that takes of love for A "provincial" in Biarritz, it does not matter if he is not a member of Social circle. However, I found the end disappointing: he Can not succeed modestly in the province, we find it rich Computer engineer at the city ... Bof, we will go back for an analysis and Interesting conclusion, far from the usual stereotypes about the search for happiness.
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.
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- TriviaHot Chip song "Over and Over" can be listened during the party at the Metro Staition.
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- Also known as
- Lolo, el hijo de mi novia
- Filming locations
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 4, Paris, France(on location)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $24,134
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,242
- Mar 13, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $7,663,798
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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