Starring: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Isabelle Carré
Living in Paris, Damien Hauer (Bacri) spends his day fulfilling various roles. He teaches people about the unique outlook on life that the Chinese have, he spends some time with his hard to reach father (Claude Rich) and his friends, one of whom, Lobatch, (Jackie Berroyer) is suicidally depressed. With his marriage to his theatre director wife (Scott-Thomas) falling apart, Damien takes a vested interest in a casual acquaintance, Aurore (Carré), as well as an immigration case, but a revelation about Aurore's life makes for an extraordinary coincidence in Damien's.
A French-language romantic comedy, Looking For Hortense is pleasing enough, but you can't shake the feeling that something's been lost in translation. The life of our main character, Damien, being so complex, the film touches on numerous themes. Immigration, depression, suicide, homosexuality and infidelity all play there pars in this film and are all fairly well-balanced. The film works fairly well as a piece of drama, but the comedic aspect seems either underplayed or perhaps easier to appreciate from a French perspective, some plot-points (such as when Damien is arrested for refusing to show his ID) seeming very intrinsic to life in France. Most of the broader material comes towards the end of the film, but whilst the film is short on belly laughs, it's interesting and charming even if it lacks universality.
Next time, Chloë Grace Moretz and Aaron Taylor-Johnson put on their custom costumes once more to fight crime as vigilante superheroes in Kick-Ass 2.
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