Rotten
As flippant vaudeville-style comedies go, Cote d'Azur is rather weak.
Peter Debruge, Miami Herald
Cockles and Muscles
2005 · 1h 33m · N/A
Comedy
Directed by
Olivier Ducastel
,
Jacques Martineau
Overview
Crustacés et coquillages is a fresh French comedy film with numerous surprise turnarounds and about the tolerance of a family of four. The family spend an idealistic summer vacation together where each of the family members gets involved in a new or old relationship.
Director and cast
- Olivier Ducastel Director
- Jacques Martineau Director
- Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as Béatrix
- Gilbert Melki as Marc
- Jean-Marc Barr as Didier
- Jacques Bonnaffé as Mathieu
- Édouard Collin as Martin
- Romain Torres as Charly
- Sabrina Seyvecou as Laura
- Yannick Baudin as Michaël
- Julien Weber as Sylvain
- Sébastien Cormier as Laura's New Friend
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
54%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The gay-themed film's characters and complications are formula fluff.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
You might call it a musical without songs (mostly), or a farce without enough doors to slam, or a comedy without enough jokes.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Rotten
While Cote d'Azur should be a vacation, it's often more like work just trying to stay engaged.
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
Fresh
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.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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