It would of course be wrong, not to say foolish, to speculate that Robert Guideguian has got politics out of his system and is now back in the mainstream, because, for better or worse, once a radical ... witness our own Ken Loach (and if only he'd move to Ireland since he loves it so much) who can't lose those chains that bind the workers; Guideguinan is a French Ken Loach with talent and here he features his favorite trio - wife, Ariane Ascaride, Gerard Meylan and Jean-Pierre Darroussin who, when they get together as are good as it gets. After a mis-spent youth heisting furs they have gone their separate ways with Meylan running a strip joint, Darroussin running boats and drugs on the side and Ascaride running a chic boutique, the Lady Jane of the title. A phone call telling her that her son has been kidnapped and she needs to get next to some serious money to get him back, kick-starts the plot and who better to help her, natch, than her two ex-partners in crime. What it has going for it in spades is superlative acting by the three leads which more than compensates for the rather pedestrian plot and personally I'd go a long way - on foot if necessary - to watch a trio like this on the top of their game.
Review of Lady Jane
