Fresh
A charming, easygoing portrait of a bunch of characters in a Marseilles neighborhood...
Derek Elley, Variety
Marius and Jeannette
1997 · 1h 45m · N/A
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Robert Guédiguian
Overview
Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a check-out girl at a supermarket and lives in an apartment complex where everyone is thrown into close proximity with everyone else. Marius is working as a security guard at a cement factory that has gone out of business; he's also squatting in the building, since the plant is soon to be demolished and he'll be needing his money later on. One day, Jeannette happens by the factory, and spotting several cans of paint, tries to take two of them home with her. Marius spots her and tries to chase her away, while she rails at him with curses against the capitalist system. The next day, an apologetic Marius appears at her doorstep, cans of paint in hand; the two soon become friendly, and a romance begins to bloom, though it quickly becomes obvious that Jeannette's romance novel fantasies are a bit off the mark from what Marius has in mind.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
68%
Tomatometer
Fresh
...irresistible...
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
The environment is squalid, the politics naive, the humor fey (and not funny), the narrative barely there.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
...Mr. Guediguian sees the courage and hope in such everyday vignettes, and treats his characters with heartfelt admiration.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
Guediguian is a smooth enough director, but it's his casting and some episodes in the screenplay that transfix us.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
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