Not a laugh riot, but neither is it played for melodrama.
Overview
Agathe Villanova is a self-centered, workaholic feminist politician who, upon reluctantly returning to her home in the south of France to sort out her mother's affairs, runs for a local election. Upon her arrival, Agathe grudgingly agrees to take part in a documentary being made by the blundering duo of Karim, an aspiring filmmaker, and self-professed "reporter" Michel, on the subject of "successful women." As Agathe's life hilariously unravels, the camera is there to capture it all.
Director and cast
- Agnès Jaoui Director
- Jean-Pierre Bacri as Michel Ronsard
- Jamel Debbouze as Karim
- Agnès Jaoui as Agathe Villanova
- Pascale Arbillot as Florence
- Frédéric Pierrot as Antoine
- Mimouna Hadji as Mimouna
- Florence Loiret-Caille as Florence Loiret
- Florence Loiret Caille as Florence Loiret
- Anne Werner as Séverine
- Laurent Jarroir as Guillaume
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
It's graceful in presenting its ideas, and what emerges is not a polemic but a kind of snapshot of modern-day concerns.
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.
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.
Beautifully strange and affecting...
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