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French Film
Directed by
Jackie Oudney
2008
87m
Comedy
,
Romance
6.5
50%
58%
5.9
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A comedy about how French and English cultures differ in their attitudes on relationships.
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Cast of French Film
Éric Cantona
Thierry Grimandi
Hugh Bonneville
Jed
Adrian Annis
Bowler
Anne-Marie Duff
Sophie
Victoria Hamilton
Cheryl
Douglas Henshall
Marcus
Kenneth Hooper
Park Patron
Henry Maynard
Waiter
Orlando Seale
Harrington's Waiter
Lizzie Brocheré
Young Parisian Woman
Augustina Amoa
Party Guest
Jackie Oudney
Director
Aschlin Ditta
Writer / Producer
Rachel Connors
Producer
Judy Counihan
Producer
Arvind Ethan David
Producer
Stewart Le Marechal
Producer
Jonny Persey
Executive Producer
Michael Riley
Producer
Rachel Payne
Production Design
French Film Ratings & Reviews
Film4
Jon Fortgang
Sacre bleu! C'est un perky British rom a la com avec un great self-mocking performance by Eric Cantona.
Sunday Mirror (UK)
Mark Adams
An engagingly lightweight romcom.
Shadows on the Wall
Rich Cline
This romantic pastiche is rather uneven and corny, but is packed with characters who are thoroughly intriguing. We may not like them very much, but we recognise ourselves in there.
Teletext
Victor Olliver
Director Oudney's great skill is to play a touch on national stereotypes (that's comedy for you) before delving into the heart of her characters.
Shadows on the Wall
Derek Malcolm
It is typically British. Which means good acting and a screenplay from Aschlin Ditta that has some shrewd moments but not an awful lot of cinematic flair.
sbs.com.au
Don Groves
A bland, unfunny Gallic/English stew.
Daily Mirror (UK)
David Edwards
A relationships drama with almost nothing to say about relationships - except that they ain't easy - the only memorable thing about this is a supporting turn by former footballer Eric Cantona.
Daily Mail (UK)
Christopher Tookey
The actors give their all, but there's not enough here that's fresh. French Film is plodding and predictable - frightfully English, and not in a good way.
Daily Express (UK)
Allan Hunter
Cantona provides a few bright moments in French Film, a damp squib of a romantic comedy with little in the way of wit, flair or sparkle.
ViewLondon
Matthew Turner
Engaging, frequently amusing and surprisingly thoughtful British romcom, enlivened by strong performances from its four leads and a likeable comic turn from Cantona.
Observer (UK)
Philip French
The film is clever, funny and emotionally truthful and the parodies of Grimandi's films are deadly accurate.
Sky Cinema
Tim Evans
This is a rich, beautifully written exploration of romantic self-delusion. The playing - particularly Bonneville - is assured and the dialogue constantly fires off cracking one-liners.
Financial Times
Karl French
The treatment of French cinema is rather facile, and ultimately this is no more substantial than a half-decent television sitcom, or one of the slight, love-themed sketches in Scenes of a Sexual Nature, writer Aschlin Ditta's previous credit.
Guardian
Andrew Pulver
The result, however, is uneven: lurching from little-Englander spoofery to heartfelt emotionalising and back again - often in the same scene.
Times (UK)
Wendy Ide
The writing - unfunny, repetitive - is barely sitcom standard; the lighting is brutal; the performances desperate.
Times (UK)
Edward Porter
The director, Jackie Oudney, gives Bonneville and Duff's scenes a proper romcom glow, but Aschlin Ditta's script resorts to a lot of faffing about to postpone the inevitable happy ending.
Time Out
Dave Calhoun
Not a good film by a long stretch, but there's something so harmless about this debut directorial effort (from a script by Aschlin 'Scenes of a Sexual Nature' Ditta) that to pull it apart would be like savaging a child's first attempt at storywriting.
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