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Après Vous
Paramount Classics
MPAA RATING: R for language
Starring
Daniel Auteuil,
José Garcia,
Sandrine Kiberlain,
Maryline Canto,
Michèle Moretti,
Garance Clavel, Fabio Zenoni,
Ange Ruzé,
and
Andrée Tainsy
Two of France's most celebrated actors, Daniel Auteuil ("The Closet," "Girl on the Bridge") and José Garcia ("Trouble Everyday," "Jet Set"), team up in a romantic comedy that begs the question: can it actually be bad to be a Good Samaritan? (Paramount Classics)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Foreign
|
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Benoît Graffin
David Léotard
Pierre Salvadori
Danièle Dubroux (idea)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Pierre Salvadori
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 8, 2005
Theatrical: June 3, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
110 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French (with English subtitles) |
Title translates as "After You"; Nominated, Best Actor (Auteuil), 2004 César Awards

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
This delightfully spirited film is perfectly cast, and it's hard to imagine how Daniel Auteuil, José Garcia and Sandrine Kiberlain could possibly improve upon their irresistible, multifaceted portrayals.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
The humor is all over the place, veering from light to dark and from broad to subtle -- as if an "I Love Lucy" episode had been retooled by Woody Allen.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Suicidal depression has rarely looked so amusing.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Maybe the movie does so much dawdling and meandering so we'll have more time to bask in their presence; in any case, the otherwise pleasant picture uses up its ideas long before it uses up its running time.

70
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Unusually for a soap-bubble film, Après Vous runs almost two hours and very nearly sustains its length. Five minutes of condensation toward the end would have benefited it. But Salvadori floats everything, hammers nothing, and gets maximum buoyancy out of Camille Bazbaz's jaunty music.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
There isn't much to the movie, and you can see where it's going from kilometers away. But [Daniel] Auteuil gives the silliness a surprising heft.

63
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Après Vous arranges for a normal guy to get stuck with a blithering wreck. But whenever things threaten to get really silly, it pulls back.

63
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
A sweet, if dramatically overlong trifle.

60
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Après Vous offers nice sound design and an unfussy presentation of middle-class Paris. It comes and goes with no unpleasant aftertaste.

60
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Elegantly written, well-thesped comedy is too hermetic and bittersweet to be laugh-out-loud funny, but sustains a fairly successful ratio of uncomfortable situations to amusing solutions.

50
Village Voice
Peter L'Official
Praised be the gods that this rom-com is French. If not, we'd be haunted by visions of a Focker-ish Dustin Hoffman rescuing a suicidal Tony Shalhoub then orchestrating the TV germophobe's reunification with ex Lisa Kudrow. Vive la France!

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
It's sweet, but way too silly.

50
Chicago Reader
Hank Sartin
Reasonably entertaining but predictable.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
The story itself is silly and exaggerated.

50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Had it had the concision and symmetry of a classic French farce, Après Vous could have been an irresistible laugh machine.

50
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
The best that can be said for this excitable, harmless romantic comedy is that it is smoothly directed by Pierre Salvadori.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Like most contemporary romantic comedies, the film's plot works only if you accept that everyone behaves like a complete and utter idiot at all times.

50
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The movie is largely set in a busy Paris restaurant, and, not surprisingly, the food looks terrific. You may come out hungry for poached sea bass and a little starved for drama.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Intended as a farce, but lacks farcical insanity and settles for being a sitcom, not a very good one.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Intends to be a farce, not a drama. The film never quite achieves either definition.

50
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
You should come out of a film like Apres Vous with your heart as light and fluffy as a souffle. But this farce, credited to four chefs, er, writers, is as heavy and leaden as meatloaf.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Salvadori's choppy film never establishes a comic rhythm.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
The jokes run dry, the situation is redundant, the cast becomes tiresome and the running time is interminable.

30
Dallas Observer
Jean Oppenheimer
Proves an absolute chore to sit through.


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