...an act of cinematic masturbation against pastel colors...

| Original Score: D+ | Jun 15, 2009

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

Works well so long as it is approached as a tongue-in-cheek farce as opposed to a plausible melodrama.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 15, 2007

Delights and surprises, a combo that is important to many audiences.

| Mar 1, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2006

Valerie Bruni-Tedeschi (who looks like a Gallic Gillian Anderson) is superb here, giving a weirdly sexy, frequently distracted performance that works well.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 13, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2006

a funny, sexy, and very French diversion that's as weightless as a Mediterranean breeze.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 22, 2006

If anything, the film is proof that a European sex comedy can be just as boring as your run-of-the-mill comedy if the writing isn't up to snuff.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 6, 2006

Little more than an alluring travelogue with a side order of R-rated humpiness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Abrupt cuts and reversals, repetition of jokes, and limp dialogue conspire against anyone's caring about the characters or their movie.

| Oct 29, 2005

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 29, 2005

Bollywood musical revelry mixes with vaudeville's grand tradition of slamming doors to accent the comedy and emotional chaos.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 22, 2005

Co-filmmakers Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau are getting in the habit of offering imperfect but highly enjoyable concoctions in human quirkiness, this one strictly sudsy, and cute as a polka-dot bikini.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2005

As flippant vaudeville-style comedies go, Cote d'Azur is rather weak.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2005

The film has the potential to be decadent (infidelity is here regarded as the norm and monogamy as an aberration), but Ducastel and Martineau somehow turn it into lighter-than-air fluff.

| Oct 21, 2005

A zippy, modern variation on those Shakespeare comedies where a bunch of pretty young people head off into the woods to pair off with each other.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2005

When they aren't talking about sex, they're having it... You can't live on sex and seafood alone - a little variety is needed to spice up your diet... and this movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 8, 2005