Rosalie Blum (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Julien Rappeneau
	Actors:  Noémie Lvovsky (Camille redouble), Kyan Khojandi (Bref TV-series), Alice Isaaz, Anémone (Le père Noël est une ordure)
	Country: F
	Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
	Conditions of visioning: 21.07.2016, inflight entertainment 8" screen
Synopsis: Vincent Machot (Khojandi) lives a simple and almost boring life, when he comes across Rosalie Blum (Lvovsky) whom he is persuaded to have met in the past. He starts to follow her every moves.
Review: Kyan Khojandi became well known in 2011 thanks to the short episodes of the excellent TV-series Bref that he wrote and directed for some, and in which he acted. Now that I mentioned it while writing this review I couldn't resist watching some of them again. Rosalie Blum is one of the movies with which he is now starting a cinema career, accompanied by other more or less known actors, and he is quite well playing this urban Mr Average (a bit like he did in Bref actually). The life of his character starts to change in good upon meeting Rosalie, like if he had finally found a motivation in this life. The movie is very well made so that when the story focused on Vincent could start to become repetitive, something weird happens and the editing of the movie gives it a whole new angle, a rather enjoyable one. I found all characters in the movie very well written and filled with realism. In fact the movie is adapted from a graphic novel of the same name by Camille Jourdy (see cover at the end of this post), explaining this feeling I had of a well-thought story, exquisite and consistent until the last minute. Several times throughout the movie I felt touched by what happens to Vincent, Rosalie, her niece and the friends of that one, and the movie left me with a nice feel-good smile, which is exactly what this kind of dramatic comedy should do. Highly recommended.
Rating: 7 /10