Agnès Jaoui has ploughed a single furrow for a while now, ever accompanied by her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri, and the soil may be wearing thin.Her directorial debut, Le goût des autres, 9 years ago was a breathtakingly fresh slant on the easy-to-sterotype French cinema of middle-class people excessively intellectualising over their lives and relationships, but Comme une image 4 years later had only angst to add to the equation.
Refreshingly, in Let's Talk about the Rain the tack has changed: humour is now on board, and France's leading comic light Jamel Debbouze is on board to bolster this shift, although it's Bacri's stock persona as a misguidedly self-important mid-lifer who gets to carry the laughs. The pair play bumbling documentary makers, Jaoui an aspiring politician who is the butt of their documentary, and various affairs get hatched and discarded along the way. Slight but at least light. Jaoui will have to come up with more the next time around, though.
6/10
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