Film Reviews
L'Ennui
- Director: Cedric Khan.
- Starring: Charles Berling, Sophie Guillemin, Arielle Dombasie
- Details: Fr / 120 mins / TBC
He's a divorced philosopher enduring a crisis of faith. She's a 17-year-old ingenue who likes sex and lots of it. They are, of course, both French. An irritating variation on the staple French cliché of l'amour fou, L'Ennui degenerates rapidly into a monotonous tale of compulsion. There's nothing so boring as other people's jealousy
Review by Declan Burke
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