Thank god Jean-Pierre Bacri is in this film, because he is a light note in an otherwise dreary film. Everyone else is miserable from the get go, and more or less unchanged when the film ends. I didn't care about the characters because they are so privileged, and I absolutely despised the casual treatment of adultery. What is it with the French and people having casual affairs!? Discussions of feminism are also woefully simplistic and the film seems to suggest that being a feminist means being a surly, unpleasant spinster.

I loved Agnes Jaoui's earlier films, 'The Taste of Others' is an absolute gem. 'Let it Rain' is ultimately much like a rainy day. You'd much rather be out in the sun and you're desperately keen for the rain to end.

Just about to be funny. Just about to be dramatic. Just a taste. But never enough.

Thank god Jean-Pierre Bacri is in this film, because he is a light note in an otherwise dreary film. Everyone else is miserable from the get go, and more or less unchanged when the film ends. I didn't care about the characters because they are so privileged, and I absolutely despised the casual treatment of adultery. What is it with the French and people having casual affairs!? Discussions of feminism are also woefully simplistic and the film seems to suggest that being a feminist means being a surly, unpleasant spinster.

I loved Agnes Jaoui's earlier films, 'The Taste of Others' is an absolute gem. 'Let it Rain' is ultimately much like a rainy day. You'd much rather be out in the sun and you're desperately keen for the rain to end.

With their attention to place and psychology, the comedies of Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri are among the great pleasures of modern French cinema. Touching on everything from family to fidelity, politics to prejudice, this is a slice of dystopic domesticity that captures the disappointments of life and the little joys that make it worthwhile. Returning south to stand in an election, Jaoui’s chic feminist agrees to appear in a documentary by serial loser Bacri. Nothing goes smoothly, yet the calamities on the hustings and film set are presented with an insouciance that makes them all the more amusing.