It’s not often that the main character of a movie is so annoying that I
just want to slap her legs hard in the hope that she will stop being so
irritating, but this is one such case. And in fact now I think about
the rest of the cast, I would probably want to slap the lot of them
In this new French comedy, thirty-something Adele is devastated after being
dumped by her boyfriend. Adele has nowhere to live and no job, which
she thinks is reason enough to stay in bed and just cry all day. She
also has no close friends or family, so her neighbor dumps Adele with her
distant cousin, Rachel, who is rather a mess herself, but she reluctantly takes
her in. Rachel attempts to salvage Adele's life by first finding her
a job babysitting, and then insisting that she follows her own well worn path
on how to get over a heartbreak i.e. by sleeping with as many other men as
possible. Adele does just that and throws herself at the first three men
that cross her path . And just when you think you couldn't possible dislike her more, Adele bursts into song every now and again ..... and don't get me started on soppy french pop songs ! Urgh!
Then in one ridiculous final scene where all the different lovers collide,
and one of their wives too, it is obvious that the course of love,
true or otherwise, will never run smooth for Adele. Something that
was obvious to us at the beginning and that we could have told and saved her a
lot of unnecessary bother. And 90 wasted minutes of our time too.
And then as the credits rolled I discovered that the 3 men in Adele’s life
were all played by the same actor, and I still cannot tell if was a) to show
off his versatility with disguises, or b) because they were all meant to look
alike or c) it was a very low budget production. But then
again, I haven’t got to the core of why this grossly unfunny movie
was originally titled 'La Reine des Pommes' i.e.The Queen of
Apples.
This
DVD evidently is available next June, but don't hold your breath. You'd
be better off just staying home and eating queen apples (yes, they do
exist) or just copy Adele as if you are also getting over a broken heart.
★★
