Agnès Jaoui,
Jean-Pierre Bacri,
Jamel Debbouze,
Pascale Arbillot,
Guillaume De Tonquedec
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Many regard the satirically inclined writer-director-star Agnès Jaoui (Le Goût des Autres) as a European equivalent of Woody Allen. The cerebral comedy Let It Rain represents Jaoui's third effort in t... read more
DVD Release Date: July 28, 2009
Stats: 226 reviews
This one?s a slow starter but your patience is rewarded. It?s a subtle story of self-importance with a Eric Rohmer feel about it but without the humour or great script. The real reason to watch this film is for the brilliant performances by Jean-Pierre Bacri & Jamel Debbouze.
It's graceful in presenting its ideas, and what emerges is not a polemic but a kind of snapshot of modern-day concerns. Full Review
At times Let It Rain recalls one of those Katharine Hepburn comedies where the New Woman gets cut down to size so as not to intimidate the Old-School Men. Yet the film so likably deflates the pompous ... Full Review
The character conflicts are so decorously handled that after a while the whole enterprise begins to seem more like a good waiter than a good story. Full Review
A movie in which everyone was this disappointed, and nobody changed, would be a very sad film, and that's not Jaoui's intent. She's not a cynic but a humanist and, by the end of the film, most of thes... Full Review
It's all a little insular and very conversational, but the setting is cozy and the performances all pleasantly low-key. Full Review
May not be funny in a ha-ha sense, but it gave me an amused open-mouthed appreciation of life's absurdities, including unanticipated nuisances like bad weather. Full Review
Low-key and ruefully well-observed, France's Let It Rain is nevertheless too slight to make much impact. Full Review
Jaoui neatly, gently, firmly slips political commentary into Let It Rain's articulate mayhem. Full Review
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