Let it Rain (Parlez-moi de la pluie) (2008)
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76% of critics liked it
(46 reviews) -
40% of users liked it
(11,430 ratings)
Many regard the satirically inclined writer-director-star Agnès Jaoui (Le Goût des Autres) as a European equivalent of Woody Allen. The cerebral comedy Let It Rain represents Jaoui's third effort in the said capacities, and finds her juggling preoccupations with gender politics and class… More Many regard the satirically inclined writer-director-star Agnès Jaoui (Le Goût des Autres) as a European equivalent of Woody Allen. The cerebral comedy Let It Rain represents Jaoui's third effort in the said capacities, and finds her juggling preoccupations with gender politics and class differences. Here, she plays Agathe Villanova, a feminist author with political plans who heads off to the summer residence of her early years to address some unfinished family business with her sister, Florence (Pascale Arbillot). Once there, her path crisscrosses with two documentarists shooting a film about powerful women -- Karim (Jamel Debbouze) and Michel (Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jaoui's off-camera husband and creative partner, who co-authored the script with her). She agrees to be interviewed for the film, leading to a series of arguments between Karim and Michel about how best to film her; meanwhile, Agnes offers to help Karim out by setting up a job for him, little recognizing the complications that this will yield. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Directed By
- Agnès Jaoui
- Written By
- Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jun 18, 2010 Wide
- Studio
- IFC Films
Critic Reviews
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Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Not a laugh riot, but neither is it played for melodrama.
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Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
It's graceful in presenting its ideas, and what emerges is not a polemic but a kind of snapshot of modern-day concerns.
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Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
At times Let It Rain recalls one of those Katharine Hepburn comedies where the New Woman gets cut down to size so as not to intimidate the Old-School Men. Yet the film so likably deflates the pompous and pumps up the humble that it's hard not to like.
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
The character conflicts are so decorously handled that after a while the whole enterprise begins to seem more like a good waiter than a good story.
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Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Beautifully strange and affecting...
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Cast
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Agnès Jaoui
as Agathe Villanova
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Jean-Pierre Bacri
as Michel Ronsard
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Jamel Debbouze
as Karim
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Pascale Arbillot
as Florence
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Guillaume De Tonquedec
as Stéphane, Stéphane, St?phane
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Frederic Pierrot
as Antoine
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Mimouna Hadji
as Mimouna
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Florence Loiret-Caille
as Aurélie, Aurélie, Aur?lie
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Anne Werner
as Séverine, Séverine, S?verine
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Jean-Claude Baudracco
as Ernest le paysan
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Luc Palun
as Didier le paysan
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Marc Betton
as Producer
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Laurent Jarroir
as Guillaume
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Candide Sanchez
as Priest
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Bernard Nissille
as Man at Baptism
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Alain Bouscary
as Waiter
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Daniele Douet
as Rodolphe's Mother
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Sacha Rousselet
as Florence's Child
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Sonam Roussel
as Florence's Child
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Alexandre Dobrowolski
as Rodolphe
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Victoria Cohen
as Agathe as a Child
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Morgane Kerhousse
as Florence as a Child
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Mimouna Arab
as Young Mimouna
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Isabelle Devaux
as Villanova Mother
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Antoine Garceau
as Villanova Father
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Jacques Rebouillat
as Patron of the Karim Hotel
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Amélie Bardon
as Amélie Bardon, Amélie Bardon, Am?lie Ba...
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Sarah Barrau
as Receptionist
