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Cote d'Azur (Crustaces & Coquillages) (2005)

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Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 50
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 25

This listless, albeit sexually charged, French farce is too lightweight to make any impact despite its whimsical qualities.

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Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 9

This listless, albeit sexually charged, French farce is too lightweight to make any impact despite its whimsical qualities.

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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 1,181

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It's Summer Rental meets Blame it on Rio when a French family heads off to the Mediterranean for a sultry summer vacation in the ensemble sex comedy Côte d'Azur, co-directed by Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastel (The Adventures of Felix). When the head of the clan, Marc (Gilbert Melki), decides to tote his wife, Béatrix (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi), and his teenage children Laura (Sabrina Seyvecou) and Charly (Romain Torres) off to his childhood beach home on the Riviera, a number of sexy

Feb 7, 2006

Strand Releasing

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All Critics (60) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (26) | DVD (3)

The gay-themed film's characters and complications are formula fluff.

October 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Comment
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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While Cote d'Azur should be a vacation, it's often more like work just trying to stay engaged.

October 7, 2005 Comment
Detroit Free Press
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It's a diversion at best and a strained souffle at worst, but it rings enough Gallic changes on the old family-summer- gone-horribly- wrong genre to deliver some unexpectedly sharp laughs.

September 30, 2005 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
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Sexually brazen yet also rather sweet.

September 29, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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There's no denying the appeal of well-toned half-naked bodies, a sun soaked Mediterranean beach, and -- musical numbers extolling the aphrodisiac qualities of shellfish?

September 28, 2005 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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Sunny little nothing of a French comedy.

September 15, 2005 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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...an act of cinematic masturbation against pastel colors...

June 15, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

Works well so long as it is approached as a tongue-in-cheek farce as opposed to a plausible melodrama.

July 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Denver Urban Spectrum | Comment
Denver Urban Spectrum

Delights and surprises, a combo that is important to many audiences.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

Valerie Bruni-Tedeschi (who looks like a Gallic Gillian Anderson) is superb here, giving a weirdly sexy, frequently distracted performance that works well.

May 13, 2006 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment
ViewLondon

a funny, sexy, and very French diversion that's as weightless as a Mediterranean breeze.

February 22, 2006 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

A feisty sex comedy of errors. It doesn't break any ground, but it still has its charms.

February 5, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

If anything, the film is proof that a European sex comedy can be just as boring as your run-of-the-mill comedy if the writing isn't up to snuff.

January 6, 2006 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Cote d'Azur (Crustaces & Coquillages)

"Cote d'Azur" takes place while a family is on vacation in the south of France. Beatrix and Marc are parents of two teenaged children. The daughter, Laura, is off to Portugal with a biker.(Every parent's worse nightmare - the biker part not Portugal.) Beatrix is okay with this because of her Dutch parentage. The

September 18, 2005
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Walter M.

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This is the forth movie Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau did together... and they made a real summer movie about husband and wife - Marc (Melki) and Béatrix (Tedeschi)- who take their two kids to the seaside house of Marc's youth. Not much of the family atmosphere though: their daughter takes up with a biker and

December 15, 2009
PantaOz
Panta Oz

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