Nothing About Robert

1999 [FRENCH]

Comedy / Drama

3
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 1142 1.1K

Plot summary

Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.

Director

Pascal Bonitzer Photo
Pascal Bonitzer

Top cast

Michel Piccoli Photo
Michel Piccoli as Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
Bernadette Lafont Photo
Bernadette Lafont as Mme Sauvage
Valentina Cervi Photo
Valentina Cervi as Aurélie Coquille
Fabrice Luchini Photo
Fabrice Luchini as Didier Temple
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918.39 MB
1280*690
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
25 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 6
1.66 GB
1918*1034
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
25 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by GeorgesM-41 5 / 10

a character-driven French comedy with a Woody Allen flair

Reviewed by writers_reign 7 / 10

Critic's Choice

Reviewed by kinsayder

Enjoyable minor French comedy

The character of Didier, whose troubles all begin when he gives a bad review of a film he hasn't seen, was apparently based on a real-life critic who made a similarly lazy judgement about Emir Kusturica's "Undergound". From this starting point, Pascal Bonitzer gives us a humorous portrait of a superficial, middle-class writer who is about to reap the consequences of his intellectual and emotional dysfunctions.Fabrice Luchini's deadpan, wide-eyed performance as the constantly non-plussed critic who lurches from one embarrassing predicament to another is perhaps the film's main delight. So much so, in fact, that it comes as a slight disappointment to discover the story developing into a conventional relationship dilemma: will Didier settle with his promiscuous fiancée Juliette (Sandrine Kiberlain) who takes a sadistic pleasure in humiliating him at every opportunity; or will he end up with the crazy, masochistic Aurélie (Valentina Cervi) who is Juliette's complete opposite?While far from the best example of its type, this is a perfectly decent French relationship comedy, well acted and directed, darker and broader than Rohmer, occasionally laugh-out-loud funny (particularly in the scenes between Luchini and Kiberlain), and utterly inconsequential (well, the title does sort of warn us about that).It has a great final line, by the way.
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