C'est la vie, with Josiane Bakasko and Léa Drucker, a subtle and burlesque comedy (review)

ByLeila March 8, 2024March 8, 2024

Nicolas Maury (Dix pour cent) and Tom Leeb (Edmond) are also in the cast of the film by Julien Rambaldi (The Best Friends in the World).

In December 2021, Julien Rambaldi returned to cinema with a feature film, after the successes of, among others, Best friends in the worldin 2010, and Welcome to Marly-Gomont, in 2016.

This fourth project, entitled That's life, brings together Josiane Balasko, Léa Drucker (who is the director's partner, and who has already been seen in The best friends in the world), Nicholas Maury (Ten percent) And Tom Leeb (Edmond). On the occasion of its first free-to-air broadcast on television, this Sunday on France 2, we are sharing our review again.

Behind a slightly kitsch choral poster hides a pleasant surprise: a subtle and burlesque comedy about becoming a parent that leans towards Love actually. Through five skillfully intertwined births, Julien Rambaldi (Welcome to Marly-Gaumont) takes us through the last day of a midwife in a maternity ward. The dialogues are well written, the situations original. We have a real laugh with the Léa Drucker-Youssef Hadji couple, she as a boss obsessed with work and he as a devoted husband. We really fell in love with the Florence Loiret-Caille – David Marsais pair, IVF superheroes. But our favorite duo remains the one formed by the midwife, Josiane Balasko, and the doctor, Nicolas Maury, she all smug, he all contempt, until the varnish cracks. And U.S. too.

Leila

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