2019 Film Festival
film synopsis
This enjoyable romp with spot-on performances was a Cannes favorite. Set in the French Riviera, this rollicking screwball romance/caper comedy pivots on policewoman Yvonne, a widow who learns that her much-honored, late detective husband was in fact a crooked cop. As Yvonne surreptitiously tries to right the wrongs her hubby committed, she winds up playing guardian angel to Antoine, who was unjustly imprisoned for a robbery and is now freed and ready to wreak vengeance on society. Certainly politically incorrect, the film offers many pleasures, not least of which are the constantly revised versions of her husband’s exploits that Yvonne relates to her young son in lieu of bedtime stories. Director Pierre Salvadori also builds sight gags around an S&M dungeon and a serial killer toting bags of his dismembered victims. Stars Adèle Haenel, Pio Marmaï, Damien Bonnard, and Audrey Tautou supply committed and sweetly goofy performances.