Une folle envie (2011)
Directed by Bernard Jeanjean

Comedy / Romance
aka: A Burning Desire

Film Review

Abstract picture representing Une folle envie (2011)
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...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Bernard Jeanjean
  • Script: Martine Fontaine, Bernard Jeanjean
  • Cinematographer: Axel Cosnefroy
  • Music: Christophe Julien
  • 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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