L’Homme de Ma Vie [The Man of My Life] ** (1992, Maria de Medeiros, Thierry Fortineau, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Létourneau, Ginette Garcin) – Classic Movie Review 13,956

The 1992 French comedy film L’Homme de Ma Vie [The Man of My Life] is an amiable farce starring Maria de Medeiros as the heroine who loses her job and her married lover, and looks for a rich husband to keep her.

Writer/ director Jean-Charles Tacchella’s 1992 French comedy film L’Homme de Ma Vie [The Man of My Life] is an amiable but insufficiently nimble farce from the director of Cousin Cousine, in which the heroine Aimee (Maria de Medeiros) loses her job and looks for a rich husband to keep her after her relationship with her married lover ends. She plans to changes her dress, personality and desires for each man on her list.

The first on her list is just plain irritating, but he is a misanthropic bookseller (Thierry Fortineau) who is broke and about to be booted out of his shop. They have a great night of sex, but she must marry someone rich, who turns out to be an obnoxious food critic (Jean-Pierre Bacri) who even criticises her wedding breakfast.

Some of the film is pretty funny, but it ambles jovially along, losing momentum all the while. The characters of the heroine and her judo-teaching mother plus the quirky scenes and the playing just about keep it simmering if not bubbling. Maria de Medeiros and Thierry Fortineau are especially skilled and delightful performers, and their charms keep it going.

Release date: June 3, 1992 (France).

Runtime: 104 minutes.

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