Middling, middle-class entertainment aimed at the midpoint between comedy and drama, mass appeal and sophistication, Change of Plans is eager to please and easy to dismiss.
Change of Plans(Le Code a changé)
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France · 2009
1h 40m
Director Danièle Thompson
Starring Karin Viard, Dany Boon, Marina Foïs, Patrick Bruel
Genre Comedy, Romance
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Marie-Laurence and her unemployed husband Piotr are hosting a summer dinner party. Follow the couple, along with their so-called friends and guests, as they play a game of appearances and try to cover up their own personal troubles over the course of one, chaotic night.
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Diverting, hectic entertainment, which refuses to take anything too seriously, staking out a middle ground between melodrama and farce.
Change of Plans may not be earth-shattering cinema, but it's masterfully structured and edited (by Sylvie Landra) with a first-rate cast.
At the very least, this mush pot reminds us that countries other than ours also produce melodramatic mediocrities.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
The next time you're invited to a French dinner party, you might want to give it a pass, if the tedious proceedings in Change of Plans are any indication.
Two's company, three's a crowd and eight is definitely way more than enough in writer-director Daniele Thompson's mismanaged comic ensembler, Change of Plans. Less a crowdpleaser and more a headscratcher than her previous hit, "Avenue Montaigne."
Village Voice by Melissa Anderson
A comedy of manners in need of Ritalin.
Thompson's cast is too large for her to make the best use of her ingenious story-structure.
Boxoffice Magazine by Richard Mowe
The Thompsons have a tough task to explain all the machinations in the film's first half but once the scene is set it unravels in an entertaining way, jumping forward a year--but always with flashbacks to that infamous dinner party.
The acting by Seigner, Marina Hands, Karin Viard, Patrick Bruel and other French notables is first-rate, although their characters and what they have to say are trite.
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