The new Vignal – Calamy
After its great success Antoinette in the CevennesCaroline Vignal is back with Iris and the men, a comedy led once again by a formidable Laure Calamy. About her She plays Iris, a forty-year-old dentist who apparently has everything going for her. Two adorable daughters, a kind and present husband, a beautiful Parisian apartment. But under this veneer, Iris suffers from sexual abstinence. So, on a whim, she signs up for a dating app.
A priori, object ofIris and the men it’s not the most original. The comedy, in fact, lends itself perfectly to dealing with adulterous, clandestine encounters, these stolen and often funny moments. But the director and the actress step aside by showing a married woman, installed instead to play on the score of a younger single woman, the priority “target” of these nominations. For Iris, therefore, it is not a question of discovering or reinventing herself, of turning the page, but of repairing something in a world that she wishes to preserve.
Alternately funny, touching, surprising, Laure Calamy inserts a new favorite role in her filmography. As in Antoinette in the Cevennes, it’s his movement that determines the shot, he seems to naturally bring the camera where he wants. Depending on the man she meets, the distance varies. Having just a drink, getting close, having sex without providing personal data, attempting submission…
To each man his situation, and to each situation an enrichment of the portrait of Iris. And she handles her boat and her adventures so well that at one point too funny how cuteshe sings herself and dances a cover of It’s raining menin a pure musical comedy that sublimates his career.
Masterful cast direction
Facing her, be they Alexandre Steiger, Laurent Poitrenaux – to name a few – all the actors succeed in their compositions of lovers for a day. More than inside Antoinette in the Cevenneswhere Laure Calamy and her donkey led the waltz, enters Caroline Vignal Iris and the men of one brilliant direction of the actors. Here they dance for her, humiliate themselves for her, they are funny, pathetic, touching.
In this regard, it is necessary to underline the very nice interpretation of Vincent Elbaz, a character written and developed in Hollow, which is revealed as Iris moves away from it. Before going inside a touching intimate sequence. In his role as a sober husband, the actor shines with his economy, his mere presence is enough to clearly remind of what is at stake in the film.
A successful contemporary portrait
Is it a question Iris and the men of polyamory, hedonism, dating apps and fun. But these elements serve above all to construct the portrait of a contemporary, free woman, determined not to accept boredom or destiny. Iris’s strength is what leads her to endanger her couple, as well as what allows her to defend herself when a rejected potential lover forces the door of her dental office… there, fleetingly, the film approaches with great accuracy the issue of consentit subtly borders on drama, but without straying from its humor.
This sequence, with that of the musical comedy, are the two moments of great courage of theIris and the men, and show how Vignal – Calamy transpires an ambitious cinema, effective in the ordinary as in the extraordinary. Self Iris and the men it does not reach the heights of comedyAntoinette in the Cevennessince its more common subject does not offer the same exoticism, it nevertheless presents itself as an excellent comedy combined with a touching portrait.
Iris and men arrives at the cinema January 17, 2024.
Source: Cine Serie
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