A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her mother.
Salvadori generates few laughs from this convoluted tale, whose romcom trappings sit uneasily with its lonely, troubled characters.
Entertaining if occasionally uneven stuff.
This visually unremarkable romantic comedy...
His film overstays its welcome by a long stretch, but there are some charming moments and Tautou is as watchable as ever.
This was an opportunity for Tautou to represent a new kind of romantic anti-heroine, but nobody seemed to be interested.
Only Sami Bouajila, playing the bemused, overeducated handyman-in-the-middle, emerges with his dignity relatively intact.
Silly but amiable.
It’s frisky and watchable, at least until the untangling of feelings reveals there’s little but contrivance keeping it afloat.
Émilie is pretty much a carbon copy of Amélie (Tautou's character in the film of the same name) although irritatingly fickle. Meanwhile, the plot is hoary and eventually saccharine.
Salvadori's script accommodates all manner of laboured misapprehensions and silly coincidences, but proves itself incapable of one good joke.
Further proof that the French are just as bad at making romantic comedies as their Hollywood counterparts, Beautiful Lies reteams Audrey Tautou with her Priceless director Pierre Salvadori for another film that seems determined to erase all memory of her beguiling breakout in Amelie.
Too flimsily plotted to qualify as a farce.
By the time Salvadori has finally wrapped things up and paired off his characters in a predictable fashion, many viewers may feel that these foolish and tiresome individuals deserve each other.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
macrobert, Stirling from Saturday October 15, 2011, until Sunday October 16, 2011. 15th at 2pm, 16th at 5pm.. More info: www.macrobert.org
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