I am an American who lived for 20 years in France from my late teens. So, I had little trouble following the original French version - for someone of my generation (i.e. Over 40). Nonetheless, I just couldn't figure out what some of the dialogue was, particularly of the obnoxious, jackhammer mouth of the female "lead". Even the subtitles were poor, with lags and transcriptions that were not always faithful to the original dialog.
The premise is not original, resembling "My Best Friend's Wedding". The childhood female mate of a French man is faced with a change of heart when he appears with a beautiful, talented, confident fiancée. The bride to be is tall, blonde and has a very attractive, non-fussy nature - the polar opposite of the "protagonist" who is depicted as a most unappealing physical specimen with equally repulsive personality. She is an egocentric bully, jealous, ungraceful, foul-mouthed.
Yet, despite all logic, the object of desire breaks it off with his gorgeous, well-grounded fiancée to realize his romantic love for his childhood mate, WITH the blessing of the ex-fiancée!
Now, the screenwriting, or lack thereof. The dialogue was full of teenage jargon, delivered almost incomprehensibly at times, and devoid of grace, insight or originality. It was like the first amateurish attempts at screenplay by a teenager. It was just unbelievable, and the narrative so unappealing that one doesn't have any motivation to decipher the machine gun babbling of the protagonist.
I only skipped through this inferior French production with the hope of a plausible, original element - none were found.
The premise is not original, resembling "My Best Friend's Wedding". The childhood female mate of a French man is faced with a change of heart when he appears with a beautiful, talented, confident fiancée. The bride to be is tall, blonde and has a very attractive, non-fussy nature - the polar opposite of the "protagonist" who is depicted as a most unappealing physical specimen with equally repulsive personality. She is an egocentric bully, jealous, ungraceful, foul-mouthed.
Yet, despite all logic, the object of desire breaks it off with his gorgeous, well-grounded fiancée to realize his romantic love for his childhood mate, WITH the blessing of the ex-fiancée!
Now, the screenwriting, or lack thereof. The dialogue was full of teenage jargon, delivered almost incomprehensibly at times, and devoid of grace, insight or originality. It was like the first amateurish attempts at screenplay by a teenager. It was just unbelievable, and the narrative so unappealing that one doesn't have any motivation to decipher the machine gun babbling of the protagonist.
I only skipped through this inferior French production with the hope of a plausible, original element - none were found.
