“My name is Roman. I'm fifty years old. I have everything great, a nice apartment, no health problems, I sleep like a child, my advertising business is thriving, women adore me, I do not need money. Full confidence in the future, spectacular and rich mistress - what else could you dream of? But for good reason there is a concept - a midlife crisis. At one of the parties, Romain meets a girl Eva, who works in the modeling business, and his life changes dramatically. Her friends from completely distant layers of society do not give him peace, but attempts to wrest Eva from this seemingly unsuitable company not only do not bring results - how can you make someone who does not want to change his lifestyle? - but also drag the main character into a pool that turns into sleeplessness, sudden outbursts of irritation and complete unwillingness to work.
The image of Romain on the screen embodied Guy Marchand. Your submissive author before watching this film, before not paying attention in the credits to the performers of secondary roles, thought that Marchand is only a musician, but it turned out that his filmography is very impressive. The list of French musicians who have tried in the cinema is very decent - and Johnny Halliday, and Jacques Brel, and Mark Lavoin, and Eddie Mitchell, and many others. One of them failed and, disappointed, he left his native country, settling on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Someone occasionally flashes on the screen, mostly in secondary roles. Marchand flashes, of course, not occasionally, but most of the films with his participation are almost unknown outside France.
If Marchand began acting after his musical career, then another star of this film, Patrick Bruel, had the opposite. Here he is still very young, attempts to prove how he can sing so far do not bring success to the public and, despite the dramatic role in Patrick’s debut film “Sirocco gust”, the viewer still perceives him as an actor not too gifted, who pulls only a very attractive appearance. Very soon his first album De face will be released and major dramatic roles are not far off, and France will be swept by a real Bruelemania, but so far - a charming smile, so corresponding to the role of a charming scoundrel - more director Gerard Lozier did not allow him - still this film can rather be considered as a benefit of Marchand, and not someone else.
But what happened? For pure comedy, this film is not particularly pulling, drama here still more funny moments will be. When this happens in real life and old men who lose their heads from a young girl can not stop and go to the point that they lose absolutely everything - their fortune, their careers break down, they become a laughingstock for a society whose opinion is important to them and end their lives in poverty - it is not funny. Just as it is not funny if they have time to say “Stop” and break up the relationship – either on their own or on the initiative of a girl tired of the old man. What was conceived by the writers as a comedy eventually turned into a melodrama and it is unknown whether it has a good ending or is the beginning of something no less cheerful. But in any case, if only for the sake of listening to Marchand’s voice – yes, he also sings in the frame and behind the scenes – and to see what Bruel looked like when he was only twenty-five this film is worth watching.
6 out of 10 for the film and 9 out of 10 for Bruel