Edouard Collin, Gilbert Melki, Jacques Bonnaffe
For summer vacation, Marc takes his wife Beatrix and their two children to the seaside house of his youth. The Mediterranean wind blows, the sea churns, and the heat of summer stokes their desires. Th...( read more
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Directed by: Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel
Release Date: September 9, 2005
DVD Release Date: February 7, 2006
Stats: 76 reviews
A nice entertaining French comedy with an ending that reminded me of a Gap ad. I love, love, love Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi.
Nice, very French summer movie with some fresh dialogues and amazing setting. Very funny indeed, good one for in between.
A pretty incredible film about a man who takes his family on vacation to the place where he grew up, only to uncover secrets and open wounds to pains of the past. Unique and endearing.
This brilliant movie is better known as 'Cockles and Muscles' in the Western world. This film is bloody brilliant. All the characters are hiding secrets pretty much and they spin a complicated web with their relationships and issues. It's funny, yet serious at the same time! I la...( read more)
You might call it a musical without songs (mostly), or a farce without enough doors to slam, or a comedy without enough jokes. full review
It's a diversion at best and a strained souffle at worst, but it rings enough Gallic changes on the old family-summer- gone-horribly- wrong genre to deliver some unexpectedly sharp laughs. full review
Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's "Cote'D'Azur" simply doesn't cut it, not even as a pleasant diversion. full review
Cote D'Azur is an attempt at a witty, life-affirming sex farce, but it has no truth, wisdom or honesty, and it's barely entertaining. full review
It's the filmmakers' gentle, humanistic affection for their dysfunctional clan that allows the film to moderately rise above its somewhat rote tale of Riviera bed-hopping. full review
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