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- 2005
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 36 m
- 2005
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 36 m
Summary A family's summer vacation on the Mediterranean collapses into hilarious chaos. (Strand Releasing)
Directed By: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Written By: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
- 2005
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 36 m
- 2005
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 36 m
Cote d'Azur
47
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Summary A family's summer vacation on the Mediterranean collapses into hilarious chaos. (Strand Releasing)
Directed By: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
Written By: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
47
37% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
47% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
16% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
47
37% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
47% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
16% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
This is a sophisticated adult treat in the French manner with an attractive and gifted cast and is essentially serious, yet often whimsical and always compassionate.
You know this movie is French (apart from the subtitles), because everyone looks great, gets naked and later breaks into a peppy musical number about the joys of lobster and shellfish.
Real-life partners Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau wrote and directed this frothy sex farce, incorporating musical numbers that recall Jacques Demy; the results are middling, but the actors' verve compensates for the clumsy choreography and lackadaisical camerawork.
In the end, all these sexual shenanigans just provide an excuse to play some seductive music and drink in some seaside scenery. Ah, Europe.
Bruni-Tedeschi is her usual radiantly libidinal presence, but channeling Bette Midler doesn't become her, and even she can't redeem all the redundant vaudeville carry-on.
It's hard to make a dull movie with copious nudity and all kinds of sex (straight, bi and gay), although French filmmakers Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau manage to do so in Cote d'Azur.
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Production Company
Agat Films & Cie,
Bac Films,
Cofimage 16,
Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,
Canal+,
CinéCinéma
Release Date Sep 9, 2005
Duration 1 h 36 m
Website
http://www.crustaces-lefilm.com/
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
European Film Awards
• 1 Nomination
Chlotrudis Awards
• 1 Nomination
