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Let It Rain

2008 · 1h 38m · N/A Comedy, Drama
Directed by Agnès Jaoui

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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.

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76%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Not a laugh riot, but neither is it played for melodrama.

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh

It's graceful in presenting its ideas, and what emerges is not a polemic but a kind of snapshot of modern-day concerns.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

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.

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten

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.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Beautifully strange and affecting...

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

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