Combien Tu M'Aimes? (How Much Do You Love Me?)

Film

Critics' choice

First published on 29 May 2009. Updated on 1 Oct 2009.

Take one pragmatic prostitute. Mix with a balding, nondescript office worker with a heart condition who has just won the lottery. Add the whore’s jealous pimp husband, the schlub’s envious best friend and an undersexed neighbour. Shake well, and voilà: instant farce. However, Blier doesn’t do farce the conventional way. He likes to change up the usual door-slamming wackiness with unexpected moments of serious emotion

by Hank Sartin

In French with English subtitles