Ma vie n'est pas une comédie romantique (2007) Directed by Marc Gibaja
Comedy / Romance
aka: It Had to be You
Film Synopsis
Thomas's life bears scant resemblance to a rom-com when, after breaking up
with his girlfriend, he finds himself back on the street with nowhere to
live. It's not a pleasant thing for a man of his advanced years - 35
- to have to go back to his parents and beg them to take him in again.
Florence, an old classmate of his, seems to have made a better go of her
life. True, she did cause something of a fuss when she got herself
pregnant at the age of 17, but that's all in the past. Now she is happily
married to a respectable estate agent, lives in a beautiful house in the
centre of town, and has two children that she adores. What more could
she ask for? Thomas is delighted to run into Florence after all these
years - wasn't she the first girl he ever kissed? - and naturally he accepts
her kind invitation to dinner at her home. This disastrous dinner engagement
will mark a decisive point in Thomas's life - the point at which his life
finally begins to look like a romantic comedy...
Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.
In the 1940s, the shadowy, skewed visual style of 1920s German expressionism was taken up by directors of American thrillers and psychological dramas, creating that distinctive film noir look.
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.