Cote D'Azur
by Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel
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Actor: Edouard Collin, Gilbert Melki, Jacques Bonnaff?, Jean-Marc Barr, Valeria Bruni TedeschiDirector: Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Strand Releasing
Movie Reviews of Cote D'Azur
Movie Review: You're Either Tolerant or You're Not
Summary: 3 Stars
Sex is everywhere in this film. It saturates every second we see and every step these characters take. And with the whole movie taking place at a seaside resort the environment is ripe for this type of lifestyle. Stylistically and artistically director Olivier Ducastel doesn't really accomplish very much. Rather he sets his sights on demolishing the bourgeois convention of marriage because as he sees it as repressive and not very natural. The story involves a family of four who is living for the summer in a waterfront cabin. The parents seem normal enough, but you can imagine how long that lasts. As it turns out both have issues and come to take on lovers on the side. Beatrix, the matriarch, has an overly aggressive one who followed her from back home and is constantly on the prowl harassing her for a booty call. Soon he starts playing out of the Mr. Big playbook and decides that she will be his and that the way to accomplish this is by forcing an outing of their affair. Meanwhile Marc, her husband, is going through something of an evolution. First he focuses on his son's sexual orientation and convinces himself that he has a gay son. All of a sudden his interest in the matter seems a little too pointed, it is because he himself is gay (obviously) and has to come to terms with that. All this means that his constant spying on his son's good looking friend while he is in the shower has nothing to do with parental do-gooding.
Throughout we get hit with the point that monogamy is an abomination. The establishment likes the idea of marriage because they believe that it promotes stability, which it does. But it also creates monsters out of normal people such as Marc who are relegated to running around their yard with a weed whacker trying to tame nature. Nature can't be tamed and neither can his true urges. This being a light comedy however means that things never turn dark and everything works out for the best. I didn't find much interest in the thread that involved Charly and Martin, the families son and his dear friend, and I could write that off as me just not having a rooting interest in the story. The shower is the hot spot of choice for these characters as within its walls sexual acts of all kind take place: self-inflicted, voyeuristic, consensual. Never one to miss a beat as the Lord of Repression Marc tries to stop this action by turning off the hot water. Also, as much as Ducastel may hate marriage he does not paint a very flattering portrait of infidelity either. Even though it is her boredom with Marc that drove Beatrix into the arms of another man, that man is still convinced that the only way to go is to have a committed, exclusive relationship with her. It stinks of ownership and it stinks of ignorance, but as human beings those are two things that we are committed to. Mostly the characters are left to balance their own intolerance with their bodies very real urges. It is what we Americans do when we aren't pondering what went wrong with Scott Foley. The film itself is interesting, but it could have been so much better. . .if only they had taken the hideous song and dance sequences out. Those were so terrible I felt bad for the actors involved. So while, in my opinion, this film is neither good or bad, please don't let me stand in your way from seeing it. It has something to say, it is just too easily distracted by piggish behavior. ***
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