As Luck Would Have It
by Lorenzo Gabriele
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Actor: Anne Kreis, Jacques Michel, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Pierre Gos, Sabine HaudepinDirector: Lorenzo Gabriele
Cinematographer: Denis Jutzeler
Composer: Thierry Malet
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Picture This! Home Video
Movie Reviews of As Luck Would Have It
Movie Review: A Sensitive Comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
"As Luck Would Have It"
A Sensitive Comedy
Amos Lassen
Switzerland has a unique law in that every citizen, at the whim of the court, can be assigned a live-in foster child and that is just what happens when a brilliant university professor and part-tine author Jean-Pierre (Jean-Claude Brialy) learns that he will be responsible for Antoine (Julien Bravo), a teen. Disaster raises its head on the situation. Everyone thinks that Jean-Pierre is happily married to a woman but for years he has been in love with Armando, his masseur. Coming out would cause harm to his career so he tries to influence the judge not to make him take Antoine but this backfires and opens an investigation as to his suitability to be a foster father.
Jean-Pierre has only one alternative and he gets back in touch with Alice (Sabine Haudepin), a girl he once married as a favor, When Antoine moves into Jean-Pierre's home, Armando becomes hysterical and Jean-Pierre is thrown into a situation of misunderstandings from which he must salvage some sense of reality.
This film is charming from beginning to end and the cast is superb. It is a tender story about the issues that are faced by a gay man who tries to manage his professional life with his personal one. We get to look at the different ways in which love manifests itself and we learn how to handle relationships and societal problems as they refer to us.
There are many comic moments in the film but what makes this movie so special is that it is touching. It gives hope that things will get better for the gay people of the world. "As Luck Would Have It" is beautifully photographed as has a wonderful cast. It certainly was a great deal more than I expected.
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