Une folle envie (2011) Directed by Bernard Jeanjean
Comedy / Romance
aka: A Burning Desire
Film Review
Having directed two moderately successful comedies - J'me sens pas belle (2004) and J'veux pas que tu t'en ailles
(2007) - Bernard Jeanjean plumbs the depths of bad taste for his third offering, a
film that should, by any standards, rate as one of the worst French
films of all time. Infertility is a serious subject but there is
doubtless scope for finding humour in it, although Jeanjean's attempts
to do so are crude and facile in the extreme. Not only is the
film extremely poorly written (it is hard to imagine anyone finding
anything to laugh at) it also falls ludicrously flat on both the
directing and acting fronts. Just what an actor of Clovis
Cornillac's calibre is doing in this maelstrom of mediocrity, which
consists mainly of tacky sex jokes of the kind most people grow out of
by the age of 15, is anyone's guess. Being a total masochist, I
sat through the whole film stone sober - it is not an experience I would recommend to anyone.
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Film Synopsis
Yann and Rose are young, very much in love and want to have a
child. Nine months later, their baby has yet to put in an
appearance. They are ready to try anything to realise their dream
and make their union complete, anything and everything. But in
their determination to make a baby they may end up losing sight of what
they already have, and they might even destroy their relationship...
Cast: Clovis Cornillac (Yann Le Guellec),
Olivia Bonamy (Rose Abadi),
Marianne Denicourt (Lili Magellan),
François Vincentelli (Franck Magellan),
Pierre-François Martin-Laval (Loïc Le Guellec),
Elise Larnicol (Gwenaëlle),
Philippe Harel (Professeur Albert),
Martin Lamotte (Alfredo Abadi),
Jean-François Stévenin (Malo Le Guellec),
Annick Blancheteau (Francisca Abadi),
Michèle Ernou (Beatriz),
Samuel Jouy (Guillaume),
Isabelle Vitari (Laure),
Alice Pol (L'étudiante),
Martine Fontaine (La psychanalyste),
Florence Muller (La gynécologue),
Gaëla Le Devehat (La bonne soeur),
Bernard Jeanjean (L'infirmier),
Aurélie Michon (La sage femme),
Jade Phan-Gia (L'anesthésiste)
Country: France
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 80 min
Aka:A Burning Desire
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