Product Details

• Actors: Karin Viard, François Cluzet, Judith Godrèche, Bernard Menez
• Directors: Tonie Marshall
• Format: Color, Import, Widescreen, Subtitled
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00063AYKM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #319,281 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Everything a comedy needs except laughs, January 26, 2008

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Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: France Boutique [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ] (DVD)

Tonie Marshall's France Boutique is one of those French comedies that feels like an outline for a sitcom that nobody bothered to fill in. Francois Cluzet, looking at times uncannily like a Gallic Dustin Hoffman here, and Karin Viard are the couple behind a French shopping channel whose business and marriage are both drifting towards the rocks, with Nathalie Baye in one of her cameos as a smiling Rottweiller out to steal their business by conning them into offering a duff product, the `Fear Eliminator,' and picking up the network for pennies in the ensuing financial fallout. The characters all have comic potential - one presenter (Judith Godreche) stars in porn films on the side, a camp production assistant thinks his homosexuality is a big secret, a production designer is into radical art and the odd spot of S&M and a segment director thinks of his promos as cinematic art - but, aside from a memorable promo for a defrosting tile that prompts an on-camera existential crisis about a wasted life - it never delivers any payoff on them. Still, it's easy enough brain-off viewing and does have interesting production design full of primary colors and pastels that come over well in the 1.85:1 widescreen transfer with optional English subtitles on the French PAL DVD.

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT MOVIE, March 10, 2011

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J. Solomon "SolomonArt" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: France Boutique (Original French Version with English Subtiltes) (DVD)

We are big Tonie Marshall fans [she directed the Venus Beauty Institute] and this movie has all of the qualities she promotes in her films ... misdirected love .. love out of sinc.... great movie, and a great director. I strongly recommend this film.