Overview
- The film opens in French cinemas today following early notices from major outlets including Le Parisien and Le Nouvel Obs.
- Commandeur’s third feature follows three former classmates who reunite after a friend’s death and find long-held grudges resurfacing.
- Critics describe a sharply comic, sometimes caustic tone that satirizes the usual reconciliation arc of reunion stories.
- Themes center on the anxieties of turning fifty and unresolved adolescent wounds, with shifts into darker, more introspective territory.
- Performances by Jérôme Commandeur, Laurent Lafitte and François Damiens draw praise, with a Vanessa Paradis moment repeatedly highlighted.