22 July 2021. It is the day of the release of this feel good movie proposed by L-Atelier d-Images en VOD, depicting the story of two young thirty-year-old friends from the University, both single and who, in one summer, will chain together a host of weddings. Alice's in the middle of a breakup, and Ben's trying to find the perfect woman without ever achieving it. A film about a fraternal friendship in the midst of doubts and uncertainty to discover.
Clichés often foiled
Although somewhat caricatural, the two characters are no less endearing. Above all, Ben, integrated by Jack Quaid, the protagonist who will evolve the most and throughout the film, eventually questioning himself thanks to his acolyte Alice. The latter, shown to be desperate following a break-up at the beginning of the film – sometimes a bit heavy and exaggerated, will prove to be much stronger than it looks.
While it can sometimes color the feeling that it has things, the music takes up too much space, often disconnecting us from the present moment and abusively covering some dialogues whose humor is swallowed up by the abundance of notes. Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer signed a film debut often a little bit cliché, which will, however, make the film more and more qualitative.
If we sometimes get lost between parody and first degree, the stereotypes we all have of love will eventually often be defused: Maya Erskine plays this lucid woman who brings her friend back to earth, opening her mind and trying to take her beyond the presumptions. Gradually, their relationship will mutate into deeper and complex feelings, and the two characters will pull upwards despite the set of obstacles and the lack of synchronicity inherent in any relationship, whatever it may be.
Alice will make Ben and the audience understand that « Love is not a question of luck and fortuitous encounters »but rather the fact of « find someone you want to share with, go as far as you can trying not to spoil anything ». An emotional elevator, anything but Manichean.
See if you're out of love and hope, humor and frankness!
This duo reminds us that perfection does not exist, and that nothing is more in vain and energizing than running after it. A film about engagement and its difficulties approached with humour and lightness, on the traces left by the parental model and the mistakes that we seek not to reproduce, too. A simple and effective romantic comedy – sometimes a little too agreed, but that warms the heart and mood in this summer that struggles to start.
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