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- 2014
- Unrated
- 1 h 22 m
- 2014
- Unrated
- 1 h 22 m
Summary Florian is half-German, half-French and owns "Le Flo" - a French delicatessen in Berlin that specializes in salami. When he meets Camille, the daughter of a French director, it's love at first sight. Florian is going to ask Camille to marry him - tonight! Florian's best friend, Jenny, is German and owns a bakery just down the street. She...
Directed By: Michael Glover
Written By: Mea Machrowiak, Michael Glover
- 2014
- Unrated
- 1 h 22 m
- 2014
- Unrated
- 1 h 22 m
Go with Le Flo
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9.3
Summary Florian is half-German, half-French and owns "Le Flo" - a French delicatessen in Berlin that specializes in salami. When he meets Camille, the daughter of a French director, it's love at first sight. Florian is going to ask Camille to marry him - tonight! Florian's best friend, Jenny, is German and owns a bakery just down the street. She...
Directed By: Michael Glover
Written By: Mea Machrowiak, Michael Glover
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[An] amateurish, terribly acted piffle, which devolves from dull conversations behind store counters into witless farce on a movie set.
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Go with Le Flo is a charming, eclectic romantic comedy, a generous collaboration by filmmakers Michael Glover and Robyn Rosenkrantz with the assistance of many talented friends. I adored this film and am very excited to share my views. The story with its picturesque locations including a Parisian style shop in Berlin - "Le Flo" - is delightful. It was filmed entirely in Berlin and stars actors Denis Aubert and Marina Senckel. The French actress Leslie Dubreuil added a refreshing interpretation that was enjoyable to see - like Cameron Diaz in "Something about Mary". A fun film, Go with Le Flo is full of vigor and laughter that might also draw tears near the films end. This is a movie for the discerning mind. I especially enjoyed scenes in the bakery between Gabi and Jenny, Florian on his scooter and the action that leads up to the big finale. There are many great moments worth mentioning - I just can't list them all. Special kudos to Bright Blue Gorilla for their original film scoring that was simply beautiful. Good filmmaking like Go with Le Flo is necessary to humanity. Thank you to the crew, film executives and actors for a job well done.
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Watch it! I found this to be an absolutely delightful and funny film. The characters are true to life, and I found myself thinking they were much like people I know. It is a charming story about a love between two shopkeepers, Florian and Jenny, who are unaware of this love that everyone else sees. I was unprepared for this story to be so funny, but I found myself laughing out loud, from the very beginning at the rejection scenes of the main character, Florian, as he gets various things hurled at him from a collection of girlfriends. If you like the old screwball comedies from the thirties from Hollywood, and if you love romantic French films – I think you will love Go with Le Flo. The story flowed seamlessly, as we are shown the various characters bit by bit. Goofy and romantic Florian runs a French delicatessen, sweet and kind Jenny, a bakery, and they both have assistants who give them advice – Florian's is flighty and funny, and Jenny's is young but very insightful, with advice you can't argue with like "When it comes to love, men are idiots." Florian's proposal to his current girlfriend does not go off so well, and Jenny is set into a motion by her shop keeper to try to tell Florian how she really feels about him. I don't want to spoil it for you, but there is a chase scene of sorts that is really funny, and I found myself laughing quite abit and then almost moved to tears. Watch it, you won't regret it, unless you need car chases and **** this even has some funny scenes with a car. I found it to be very well written, the dialog seemed to be very natural and realistic, and the camera work and editing seem simply perfect. There is nothing at all low budget about this production, every actor and actress seemed to be perfect for their roles. It isn't often I watch a film where the story seems so real and believable, it is almost as if you were a friend watching all this happen. Perhaps it is because the characters are so much like people I know in my life, played by very competent actors and directed by people who care about telling a story. I can tell the folks who made this love good old movies, yet there is something still fresh and original about this one, it isn't some story simply dusted off and changed around a bit. I enjoyed this very much and will watch anything else I can find made by them – this was easily the best new film I've seen all year. Go watch it!
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Go With Le Flo is a charmed romantic comedy, where the tight budget does not at all restrict the filmmakers’ big hearts. They’ve assembled a talented cast of German actors, who clearly relish bringing this lovely story to life. Denis Aubert plays the owner of a renowned Berlin sausage shop who is in love with a **** and self-involved woman. His ‘best friend’, played by the pretty and down-to-earth Marina Seneckel, owns the bakery down the street. It isn’t a surprise that the baker is secretly in love with the sausage maker, or that she will spend the film finding a series ways, both comic and touching, to pursue him. What does surprise, is how effortlessly the story is told and how engaging it all turns out to be. Michael Glover has written a screenplay rich in detail and character nuance, and has directed the piece in a sensitive, loving and unrushed way. He draws the audience in by spending time with his characters. It’s time well spent. We start to care because we get to know all of these funny, big-hearted and idiosyncratic characters on a deeper level than most films will allow. Glover lingers, for instance, on Mr. Aubert‘s wonderfully comic face, and Aubert pays him off by turning in an outstanding performance. The guy is irresistible, and he and Ms. Seneckel are a marvelous team. Go see this movie!
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Go With Le Flo! is delightfully entertaining - a wonderful blend of romance and comedy. Much of the fun and intrigue takes place in a French delicatessen in Berlin, but there is little that is delicate about the misguided approach to love of the main character Florian. He is half German and half French and perhaps that helps explain his calamitous handling of romance. In the end of course all goes well, or does it? There are so many twists and turns that you don’t know what is coming next. I thoroughly recommend that you find out for yourself what happens.
There was a fitting testimonial at the end of the film when the entire audience applauded. How often do you hear that?
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Cinematic comedy is a classic art form that has suffered abuse in recent decades from crude applications and generally clueless efforts on the part of commercial movie makers. It is therefore a welcome sight to behold Michael Glover's enchanting independent romantic comedy Go With Le Flo, which reminds us that genuine humor and hilarity are still achievable when the right creative minds are at work behind and in front of the camera. Defying cultural barriers which would have intimidated most filmmakers, the American Glover has fashioned a European screwball comedy (in German and French no less!) celebrating the delirious insanity of love and romance among a troubled circle of Berliners. Denis Aubert ideally captures the clumsy romantic Florian whose idiotic pursuits of a vain actress frustrate his lovestruck friend Jenny (the perfectly matched Marina Senckel). Glover and co-writer Mea Machrowiak have accomplished the near impossible: a 21st century comedy that is tender, delightful, sincere, and, when we least expect it, uproariously funny, as it conjures up the spirits of Lubitsch, Wilder, and Sturges.
Max Alvarez, film historian, author, former contributing film critic for The Washington Diplomat, The Milwaukee Journal, and Shepherd Express.
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I love this film. I'm disappointed with a lot of the Hollywood cookie-cutter fare the studios seem to be intent upon force-feeding us, and this film, Go with Le Flo, was a helpful antidote. I agree with the Lubitsch/Wilder comments. It's certainly a homage to those geniuses. But, hey, if you're going to emulate somebody, why not emulate the greats! If you like Some Like It Hot, or Ninotschka, or Bringing Up Baby (to bring in Howard Hawkes for a moment - who, I would venture is on director Micheal Glover's favorites list) then you'll probably like Go With Le Flo. The actors are great and the writing is excellent. It's a fine film and goes miles past the borders of the average low budget film. No stars in it but I think that's a plus. You judge the characters as characters and don't have to pretend that George Clooney is a lowly shop-keeper and not a Millionaire movie star. Nice job by the way by the actors who play Florian and Jenny. Ah… to have someone who loves you like Jenny does! What a dream… (Great speech at the end for Jenny too… Won't say anything else because I hate spoilers.) Go see it!
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Production Company
Bright Blue Gorilla
Release Date Apr 11, 2014
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating Unrated
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Website
http://www.gowithleflo.com/
