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This listless, albeit sexually charged, French farce is too lightweight to make any impact despite its whimsical qualities.
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As flippant vaudeville-style comedies go, Cote d'Azur is rather weak. Oct 21, 2005 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
As flippant vaudeville-style comedies go, Cote d'Azur is rather weak.
Peter Debruge
You might call it a musical without songs (mostly), or a farce without enough doors to slam, or a comedy without enough jokes. Oct 7, 2005 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
You might call it a musical without songs (mostly), or a farce without enough doors to slam, or a comedy without enough jokes.
Moira MacDonald
While Cote d'Azur should be a vacation, it's often more like work just trying to stay engaged. Oct 7, 2005 | Rating: 2/4
While Cote d'Azur should be a vacation, it's often more like work just trying to stay engaged.
John Monaghan
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. Sep 30, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
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.
Ty Burr
Sexually brazen yet also rather sweet. Sep 29, 2005 | Full Review…
Sexually brazen yet also rather sweet.
Desson Thomson
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? Sep 28, 2005
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?
Frank Scheck
...an act of cinematic masturbation against pastel colors... Jun 15, 2009 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
...an act of cinematic masturbation against pastel colors...
Cole Smithey
Works well so long as it is approached as a tongue-in-cheek farce as opposed to a plausible melodrama. Jul 15, 2007 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Works well so long as it is approached as a tongue-in-cheek farce as opposed to a plausible melodrama.
Kam Williams
Delights and surprises, a combo that is important to many audiences. Mar 1, 2007 | Full Review…
Delights and surprises, a combo that is important to many audiences.
Doris Toumarkine
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 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Valerie Bruni-Tedeschi (who looks like a Gallic Gillian Anderson) is superb here, giving a weirdly sexy, frequently distracted performance that works well.
Matthew Turner
a funny, sexy, and very French diversion that's as weightless as a Mediterranean breeze. Feb 22, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
a funny, sexy, and very French diversion that's as weightless as a Mediterranean breeze.
Don Willmott
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. Jan 6, 2006 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
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.
Jeff Vice
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 their son roams the beach with his best friend, who is in love with him. Things get steamier when Béatrix's lover Mathieu shows up, and Marc's old flame appears... The best part of this movie is Valeria Bruni Tedeschi! WOW!
Super Reviewer
[font=Century Gothic]"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 son, Charly, sticks around for his friend Martin to arrive who he has not seen in a year. After some quick observations, Beatrix declares them to be gay lovers.(She's half right.) Again she is perfectly fine with this, even if her husband is a little perturbed. The next person to make an appearance is Beatrix's lover. Complications ensue.[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"Cote d'Azur" is a mildly amusing French sex farce that preaches tolerance. It does have a rather old-fashioned feel to it with an occasional dash of irreverence thrown in. The performances are good and the situations are believable with one major contrivance.[/font]
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