YOU, ME, THE OTHER Estrougo Audrey (2010)
Gab has a quiet life: a bride, a marriage preparation, a wealthy family. Leila does not allow itself to live his own: studying law, an unruly little brother, a mother left too early ... Then when Gab reverses the younger brother of Leila, the clash of worlds and the beginning of a great love story that will collide violently with reality. Tina, the closest confidante of Leila is undocumented, under threat of deportation and is arrested. As the world collapses Leila, Gab is anything to it, even to oppose his father, police commissioner. And who said nothing was impossible until we have the love? ...
Initial intentions are good: wanting to mix a romantic comedy in ROMEO & JULIET with more serious topic of undocumented migrants. A committed political subtext of course not that avoids the cliches (the "nice" poor, "evil" rich) but it's actually not that bad because, above all, it's a nice small trifle sentimental youth.
This is not the first time a French film tries to type "music", we still keep in mind some recent successes as Same Old Song Alain Resnais or SONGS OF LOVE Christophe Honore. Here, the assembly is still less successful because it gives off some form of amateurism might seem embarrassing or, conversely, in the best cases offer a semblance of freshness in its history. The music choices are pretty cool, performers singing classic French repertoire by mixing various works such as Telephone, Zazie, Jacques Brel, or Daniel Bedingfield-all this in the name of love. It is also brave of the director to interpret the songs with his own actors. Unfortunately, there are frankly not up to the originals although there is a nice work on the musical arrangements. Remains the great evocative power of words, upon which virtually all emotion must be released feature film. The choreography also show the boundaries of the artists, we are still far from the most successful of its kind. Apart from Leila Bekhti, actors are proving rather quite limited and very caricatured, especially that of young gay hairdresser. The scenario is of course very marked and reserves no surprise. The chemistry between the two main performers hard to convince Despite some nice scenes, as when they meet on the roof of a building in the beautiful singing duo "The lucky star" ... Jacques Demy can sleep easy, sweet lyricism that emanated from his musicals seems untouchable ...
We feel, however, a great sincerity for the artistic Audrey Estrougo, but his film is actually rather anecdotal and provides only very small moments of emotion embedded in the banality of political intrigue and social . The relatively short duration of the movie, just 90 minutes, could have put the pill, but YOU, ME, THE OTHER avoids alas no redundancies and somewhat bogged down in a polite boredom at its second part and it waits patiently all this ends. Damage.
Gab has a quiet life: a bride, a marriage preparation, a wealthy family. Leila does not allow itself to live his own: studying law, an unruly little brother, a mother left too early ... Then when Gab reverses the younger brother of Leila, the clash of worlds and the beginning of a great love story that will collide violently with reality. Tina, the closest confidante of Leila is undocumented, under threat of deportation and is arrested. As the world collapses Leila, Gab is anything to it, even to oppose his father, police commissioner. And who said nothing was impossible until we have the love? ...
Initial intentions are good: wanting to mix a romantic comedy in ROMEO & JULIET with more serious topic of undocumented migrants. A committed political subtext of course not that avoids the cliches (the "nice" poor, "evil" rich) but it's actually not that bad because, above all, it's a nice small trifle sentimental youth.
This is not the first time a French film tries to type "music", we still keep in mind some recent successes as Same Old Song Alain Resnais or SONGS OF LOVE Christophe Honore. Here, the assembly is still less successful because it gives off some form of amateurism might seem embarrassing or, conversely, in the best cases offer a semblance of freshness in its history. The music choices are pretty cool, performers singing classic French repertoire by mixing various works such as Telephone, Zazie, Jacques Brel, or Daniel Bedingfield-all this in the name of love. It is also brave of the director to interpret the songs with his own actors. Unfortunately, there are frankly not up to the originals although there is a nice work on the musical arrangements. Remains the great evocative power of words, upon which virtually all emotion must be released feature film. The choreography also show the boundaries of the artists, we are still far from the most successful of its kind. Apart from Leila Bekhti, actors are proving rather quite limited and very caricatured, especially that of young gay hairdresser. The scenario is of course very marked and reserves no surprise. The chemistry between the two main performers hard to convince Despite some nice scenes, as when they meet on the roof of a building in the beautiful singing duo "The lucky star" ... Jacques Demy can sleep easy, sweet lyricism that emanated from his musicals seems untouchable ... 
We feel, however, a great sincerity for the artistic Audrey Estrougo, but his film is actually rather anecdotal and provides only very small moments of emotion embedded in the banality of political intrigue and social . The relatively short duration of the movie, just 90 minutes, could have put the pill, but YOU, ME, THE OTHER avoids alas no redundancies and somewhat bogged down in a polite boredom at its second part and it waits patiently all this ends. Damage. 
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