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BOYS AND GIRLS

Today's Romain Duris film was the sequel to yesterdays.

Les poupées russes / Russian Dolls (2005)

More heterosexual promiscuity. Inability to find an enduring relationship. Shallowness of encounters in bars. All the things they say that "the gays" do. Here it is "the straights".

Well done though and we get to see a lot, I mean a very lot of Duris' skin.

And it is funny if light. Not an enduring record of his work as some of the serious films are. Still.

This involves some, not many, of the characters from yesterdays film although there is a kind of reunion if you like that sort of thing.

Soon, in his career, very soon, he is going to make a breakthrough film that will seal his fate as an iconic french actor.

Da-dum.

There is a great little "making of" segment on this disc. I usually do not watch those (as I usually do not watch sequels) and it shows, in very fast time, the subterfuge that composes most film making. Also a lot of people. My god it takes an army to work on a simple scene.

I think that I will pass on seeing this one again. It was a five but now is downgraded to a 3 although it is essential to the Romain Duris oeuvre.

Labels: films