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Rien sur Robert

  • 1999
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  • 1h 47m
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6.3/10
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Rien sur Robert (1999)
ComedyDrama

Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.

  • Director
    • Pascal Bonitzer
  • Writer
    • Pascal Bonitzer
  • Stars
    • Fabrice Luchini
    • Sandrine Kiberlain
    • Valentina Cervi
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    1.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Pascal Bonitzer
    • Writer
      • Pascal Bonitzer
    • Stars
      • Fabrice Luchini
      • Sandrine Kiberlain
      • Valentina Cervi
    • 11User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination total

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    Fabrice Luchini
    Fabrice Luchini
    • Didier Temple
    Sandrine Kiberlain
    Sandrine Kiberlain
    • Juliette Sauvage
    Valentina Cervi
    Valentina Cervi
    • Aurélie Coquille
    Michel Piccoli
    Michel Piccoli
    • Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
    Bernadette Lafont
    Bernadette Lafont
    • Mme Sauvage
    Laurent Lucas
    Laurent Lucas
    • Jérôme Sauveur
    Denis Podalydès
    Denis Podalydès
    • Martin
    Nathalie Boutefeu
    Nathalie Boutefeu
    • Violaine Rachat
    Micheline Boudet
    • Mme Temple
    Edouard Baer
    Edouard Baer
    • Alain de Xantras
    Violetta Sanchez
    • Ariane Morgenstern
    Wilfred Benaïche
    • Igor
    Marilú Marini
    Marilú Marini
    • Ana
    • (as Marilu Marini)
    Alexis Nitzer
    • M. Temple
    Dimitri Rataud
    • Arthur Temple
    Patricia Dinev
    • La chanteuse
    Pascal Bonitzer
    Pascal Bonitzer
    • L'homme dans la librairie
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Pascal Bonitzer
    • Writer
      • Pascal Bonitzer
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    User reviews11

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    dutchtom1

    making fun of itself

    Do characters have to be credible and does a dialogue have to be realistic for a movie to be 'good'? This movie certainly isn't everyone's cup of tea. The typical french virtues/vices of film making are present here: "over-intellectualizing, not tying up a storyline, and wasting time on details", yet, at the same time, the film satirizes exactly this French behaviour, and that what for me makes it very enjoyable, and proves its one step ahead of the current french film makers who all too often take themselves much too seriously without delivering anything intellectually original or emotionally engaging. In particular Sandrine kiberlaine's character is very entertaining.
    9samyanari

    To enjoy, don't get involved emotionally.

    Initially, I stopped watching a copy of this film because I found myself feeling disgusted with the protagonists. Later, I decided to watch the film again as an impartial observer. To me, it became an interesting black comedy of frailties and morals.

    This is a story of middle-class immorality and a pathetic obsession reminiscent of Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Morally-weak Didier (Fabrice Luchini) tries vainly to break his ties with brazen/ promiscuous Juliette (Sandrine Kiberlain). She has no need to be reasonable/considerate as long as she has the upper hand. Didier vacillates in a promising affair with insatiable Aurélie (Valentine Cervi) which would free him from Juliette. Others involved with Didier and Juliette are womanizer Jérome (Laurent Lucas) and his fiancée Violaine (Nathalie Beautefeu). Unfortunately talented Michel Piccoli is wasted in his role as Ariel, Lucien's smug/outspoken critic.

    As in this film, Luchini seems to specialize in far less than ideal `heros'. In the '96 Beaumarchais the Scoundrel, Luchini was a brilliant-but-roguish delight and Kiberlain played his confidante/ mistress-and-later-wife. In '90 La Discrete, he played an egotistical womanizer who gets his come-uppance.
    1soyt

    Real bad

    I agree with MeisterK this movie was really bad. I think they wanted to make a kind of trendy intellectual movie but they totally missed the point. I find the overall stuff ridiculous, the characters are not credible at all, dialogs are nonsense,... and Luchini is playing Luchini...

    It's not a typical french movie as MeisterK said. This one is just bad.
    kinsayder

    Enjoyable minor French comedy

    The character of Didier, whose troubles all begin when he gives a bad review of a film he hasn't seen, was apparently based on a real-life critic who made a similarly lazy judgement about Emir Kusturica's "Undergound". From this starting point, Pascal Bonitzer gives us a humorous portrait of a superficial, middle-class writer who is about to reap the consequences of his intellectual and emotional dysfunctions.

    Fabrice Luchini's deadpan, wide-eyed performance as the constantly non-plussed critic who lurches from one embarrassing predicament to another is perhaps the film's main delight. So much so, in fact, that it comes as a slight disappointment to discover the story developing into a conventional relationship dilemma: will Didier settle with his promiscuous fiancée Juliette (Sandrine Kiberlain) who takes a sadistic pleasure in humiliating him at every opportunity; or will he end up with the crazy, masochistic Aurélie (Valentina Cervi) who is Juliette's complete opposite?

    While far from the best example of its type, this is a perfectly decent French relationship comedy, well acted and directed, darker and broader than Rohmer, occasionally laugh-out-loud funny (particularly in the scenes between Luchini and Kiberlain), and utterly inconsequential (well, the title does sort of warn us about that).

    It has a great final line, by the way.
    7Stanislas Lefort

    The complexity of the characters makes them at the same time close and odious

    "Nothing about Robert" is the description of empty, mediocre, hateful and paranoid existences... If the leading characters declare once in a while their love, they really like to let suffer each other. Is it a comedy or a drama? Is there even a plot? I had the pleasure of watching this unclassifiable movie because the characters in their vileness and outrageousness make one laugh. I loved their complexity which makes them at the same time close and odious. Especially, I discovered Valentina Cervi, actress with a very disconcerting performance, which interprets an exoplanet in the intellectual Parisian microcosm. Luchini is faithful to himself i.e. one always wonders from when he does a little too much. Sandrine Kiberlain is perfect in all the details.

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    • Trivia
      Director Pascal Bonitzer appears as a bookshop client looking for Robert Desnos' books.
    • Connections
      Referenced in "Conversations avec ...": Catherine Corsini (2024)
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      Ray of Light
      Written & Performed by Leon Parker

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    • Release date
      • February 24, 1999 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Nothing About Robert
    • Filming locations
      • Paris, France
    • Production companies
      • Rézo Films
      • Assise Productions
      • France 2 Cinéma
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    • Budget
      • $4 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 47 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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