Like her star Bernard Giraudeau,Nicole Garcia's ambition was to direct movies;she got close for honor with her " un week-end sur deux" .She did even better with "l'adversaire"Here she wallows in rivers of clichés.
First of all,her main star is not up to scratch:Gérard Lanvin's wooden acting is desperately boring.Such a choice for the lead is really amazing!What's more infuriating is that the highly superior Bernard Giraudeau only appears 30 minutes.Bearing more than a distant resemblance to Rosi's "tre fratelli"'(1981),"le fils préféré " is a banal effort with the de rigueur gay character played by Giraudeau who wears horrible glasses and of course the father is a good-hearted man,after all.Ridiculous scene when the father nearly gets drowned.
No cigar,and not even close.
First of all,her main star is not up to scratch:Gérard Lanvin's wooden acting is desperately boring.Such a choice for the lead is really amazing!What's more infuriating is that the highly superior Bernard Giraudeau only appears 30 minutes.Bearing more than a distant resemblance to Rosi's "tre fratelli"'(1981),"le fils préféré " is a banal effort with the de rigueur gay character played by Giraudeau who wears horrible glasses and of course the father is a good-hearted man,after all.Ridiculous scene when the father nearly gets drowned.
No cigar,and not even close.