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Movie Info

Complications arise when a factory worker (Alexandra Lamy) and a colleague (Sergi López) have a baby (Arthur Peyret) that sprouts wings.

Genre:

drama, comedy
Original Language:

French (France)
Director:

François Ozon
Producer:

Claudie Ossard, Chris Bolzli
Writer:

François Ozon
Release Date (Theaters):

Dec 16, 2009 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Apr 10, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA):

$2.2K
Runtime:

1h 29m
Production Co:

BUF, Canal+, Eurowide Film Production, France 2 Cinéma, Uni Étoile 5, Le Pacte, Coficup 3, Backup Films, FOZ, CinéCinéma, Teodora Film
Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital, DTS

Cast & Crew

Alexandra Lamy
Katie

Sergi López
Paco

Mélusine Mayance
Lisa

Arthur Peyret
Ricky

Marilyne Even
Odile

André Wilms
Le médecin hôpital

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Critic Reviews for Ricky

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (6)

The story begins in gritty realism, ends in pure fantasy and leaves out most of the alphabet as it makes its way from A to Z.

May 13, 2010 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Ricky, the first of two Ozon films to debut this year, marks a return to his busy-bee ways, not least because it feels like two disparate movies joined at the hip.

December 17, 2009 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Sam Adams
AV Club
It would be risible if Ozon's hand didn't remain so steady and confident throughout, all the way up to a complicatedly upbeat conclusion that recreates the Christian Annunciation with the straightest of faces.

December 16, 2009 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Keith Uhlich
Time Out
What Ricky lacks is a more thorough, consistent examination of maternal bonds.

December 15, 2009 | Full Review…

Melissa Anderson
Village Voice
Ricky's quicksilver changes of mood and genre make for an engaging puzzle, but its last notes of transcendence seem insufficiently earned.

December 15, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Bill Weber
Slant Magazine
Because Ozon doesn't develop his characters once Ricky shows his true nature, the movie's slightly overcooked working-class realism quickly morphs into a grotesque story of a mutant baby. The film's two halves feel almost mutually exclusive.

June 8, 2009 | Full Review…

Boyd van Hoeij
Variety
"Ricky" also has its share of weirdness, but it's un-Ozon-like in that the queasy sense of distorted reality isn't in the details, but in the overall story itself.

February 1, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Kaori Shoji
Japan Times
Acaba encontrando uma inesperada estratgia narrativa para mover seus personagens.

March 25, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Pablo Villaça
Cinema em Cena
It's not a total success in delivering heartfelt movie satisfaction, but Ozon makes the film with absolute confidence

February 21, 2010 | Full Review…

Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile
While there may be some sensational elements about this tale from Franois Ozon, it is essentially an engrossing love story with a twist

February 21, 2010 | Full Review…

Louise Keller
Urban Cinefile
a symbol-filled observation on, well, just about everything.

December 28, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Norm Schrager
Filmcritic.com
In Ozon's distinctively eccentric style, Ricky applies modern skepticism to the prospect of parthenogenesis (based on an American short story by Rose Tremain), then deepens the concept.

December 22, 2009 | Full Review…

Armond White
New York Press

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Audience Reviews for Ricky

Jun 05, 2011

A single mom factory worker gives birth to a very special baby; of course, every mother thinks her baby is miraculous, but in this case the press thinks so, too. Magical realism that never really gets off the ground; it starts as a dour domestic drama then tries to shift gears and turn into a whimsical comedy. A good idea with a good heart, and beautifully acted, but unexpectedly dull in the execution.

Greg S Super Reviewer
Nov 14, 2009

"Ricky" starts with Katie(Alexandra Lamy), a single mother, in tearful anguish, wanting to give up one of her children to foster care because he cries too much. Oh, if only that's all it was... There was a time when it was just Katie and her 7-year old daughter Lisa(Melusine Mayance). At the factory where she works, Katie meets Paco(Sergi Lopez), a handsome new worker from Spain, and before you know it, they have a lunchtime quickie. Things between them turn more romantic after that, with Paco moving into Katie's small apartment with thin walls and they end up having a baby together. While a deliriously loopy movie on the one hand with a particularly ambiguous ending, "Ricky" also serves a warning to beware of conceiving children around dangerous chemicals.(You see this kind of thing happening in comic books all of the time. Or would you prefer the spiritual approach?) Surprisingly what writer-director Francois Ozon gets right is the dynamic of a working class family, not hestitating to tell the story from Lisa's point of view on occasion as her close relationship with her mother is complicated by the entrance of a stranger into their close knit lives. This is followed by the relationship between Katie and Paco being thrown into turmoil by a new baby who receives the lion's share of attention due to the inordinate amount of his crying. On the other hand, there is one key moment when Katie does not behave like any mother I know in an act contrived only to move the plot forwards.

Walter M Super Reviewer
Jul 18, 2009

This could have easily turned into something cute and frivolous but Ozon has a way of turning a story inside out. Instead, <i>Ricky</i> is an angelic metaphor, an uplifting tragedy about coming to terms with devastating loss. An odd but lovable film.

Randy T Super Reviewer