Tonie Marshall – MRQE

Rien ne va plus

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Various settings and character types are given a once-over, including pseudo-intellectuals, punk bikers, right-wingers, and patrons of a low-end cafe.

Une pure coïncidence

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A handful of student revolutionaries from the Seventies meet up 30 years later to plan a robbery. This is not entirely correct, because they are friends, anyway, and always have been. They play cards together and go to each others birthday parties, have wives and children and probably mortgages. Romain Goupils film appears to be a throwback to the experimental days of cinema verite. Either that or its a home movie, shot with a video camera, to an improvised script or no script at all.

Pour rire!

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel’s affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is because Nicolas does not know of Alice’s affair with handsome sports photographer Gaspard. This sly sex comedy, the sophomore effort of Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux, follows the covert sexual misadventures of the troubled foursome.

Beau temps mais orageux en fin de journée

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This slice-of-life drama about an elderly couple and their estranged son covers twenty-four fateful hours that begin with the usual daily routine for the retired pair of former teachers (Micheline Presle and Claude Pieplu). Then their son telephones to say he will be coming over with his girlfriend and the normal pattern is changed, as he visits them rarely. While the mother is obsequious to her son when he arrives, past hurts and resentments bubble up during lunch, making it difficult for the son to tell them he is getting married. This is news enough, but the effect that announcement has on the son and his fiancée is unexpected and events later on in the day take a turn for the worse.