First, for which audience is this movie targeted? Sébastien Japrisot was known for tightly plotted, even if somewhat off the wall thrillers (Piège pour Cendrillon, L' été meurtrier) and the WWI story Un long dimanche de fiançailles. Most of the viewers of this one will not have seen any of these films, so the attraction must be the versatile BD artist and director Joann Sfar. I enjoyed Sfar s previous film Gainsbourg--it had a dreamy quality I liked--so I was prepared to like this one.
But the confused plot didn't help any. There is just no way somebody can control the behaviour of another person, until researchers come up with a chip that is implanted in the brain, and even then... No, this story just does not work. The performances range from super-glum (Biolay, Martin) to whimsical and sometimes anxious (Freya Mavor, whom I would like to see again).
But the confused plot didn't help any. There is just no way somebody can control the behaviour of another person, until researchers come up with a chip that is implanted in the brain, and even then... No, this story just does not work. The performances range from super-glum (Biolay, Martin) to whimsical and sometimes anxious (Freya Mavor, whom I would like to see again).