The Man of My Life has a hard time working up much beyond its visual prettiness.
The Man of My Life
2006 · 1h 54m · Unrated
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Zabou Breitman
Overview
A man vacationing in the country with his wife and children finds ideas he has of himself unexpectedly challenged.
Director and cast
- Zabou Breitman Director
- Bernard Campan as Frédéric
- Charles Berling as Hugo
- Léa Drucker as Frédérique
- Eric Prat as Guillaume
- Jacqueline Jehanneuf as Jacqueline
- Niels Lexcellent as Arthur
- Léocadia Rodriguez-Henocq as Jeanne
- Antonin Chalon as Mathieu
- Aurélie Guichard as Lucinda
- Angie David as Anne-Sophie
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
he film has a loose, easy rhythm befitting its sun-splashed look.
All too often, though, characters bandy about platitudes like they're tennis balls...or shout for no reason.
A sumptuously illustrated but shallow fable of the grass-is-greener conflict between freedom and commitment.
Too much emphasis is placed on wall text that swirls around like the worst Magnetic Poetry.
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