{"id":5954,"date":"2017-03-29T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:02:10","slug":"mr-and-mrs-adelman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cinema\/films\/mr-and-mrs-adelman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abMr. and Mrs. Adelman\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

We began the month of cinema with Rock \u2018n Roll<\/em>, Guillaume Canet's turnip. We end the month with a film of the same ilk: a comedy in which a young Parisian bobo director directs himself and his girlfriend. In every respect, Nicolas Bedos' film is a better success than Guillaume Canet's, starting with the optics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Canet, Bedos has not chosen to set the story at the same point in time as reality. Instead, the director has chosen to tell the story of a couple over time. In other words, he imagined his life with Doria Tillier from the moment they met until her death. The idea is excellent, and the choice of actors is good. The audience laughs a lot. The film works. However, it does have a number of shortcomings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

First of all, and this is obvious to every viewer, the film contains too many elements, too many ideas, too many interwoven stories... too much of everything. No less than fourteen chapters and an epilogue follow one another for a total running time of one hundred and twenty minutes. Two hours, two hours of the director's life! At the same time, far too many sequences are too short to really get to grips with the story. Studies, family, fame, drugs, illness, infidelity, it's all there. Perhaps it would have been better to choose a few aspects and explore them in greater depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This more than questionable choice is accompanied by an out-of-touch soundtrack. By wanting to do everything, Nicolas Bedos can't excel at everything. After all, it was Bedos himself who was responsible for the script, direction, acting and musical composition. In this film, the music is too mawkish and too heterogeneous, just like the other facets of the film. Nothing surprises, except for the excellent ending, which makes us say: \u00abToo bad! If the whole film were like this, it would be a masterpiece!\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n