Erzähl mir was vom Regen (2008)

Erzähl mir was vom Regen: Directed by Agnès Jaoui. With Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jamel Debbouze, Pascale Arbillot. Agnes Jaoui plays a local political candidate Agathe Villanova, who returns to her childhood home in the south of France in order to help her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot) sort through their recently deceased mother’s belongings. While she’s there, the son (Jamel Debbouze as Karim) of family maid (Mimouna Hadji) takes advantage of her presence and attempts to interview her as part of a documentary about successful women that he’s undertaken with his film school teacher, Michel (co-writer Jean-Pierre Bacri). However, Michel’s intentions aren’t quite what they seem, as he’s having an affair with Florence and hoping to persuade her to leave her husband. Meanwhile, Karim finds his own marriage threatened when his attractive hotel co-worker (Florence Loiret-Caille) declares an interest in him.

“The French are good at it. These conversation movies, there most of the action comes from the talking and there the people only exist through that.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHere we meet the high-heeled Parisian feminist, who according to the rules she keeps, has decided to have a boyfriend, decided to live alone, decided to have no children. A success story, worth a documentary to the old humbug disillusioned film-maker and the younger and more idealistic Karim of Arabian origin. By the way, Karimu0026#39;s mother works as a maiden in the household of the high-heeled feministu0026#39;s sister.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is funny and intelligent and not sensational. You wonu0026#39;t remember it, but in some ways, you wonu0026#39;t forget it either.”