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When you court controversy but you're just boring.

There's a slice of the film involving the character Hansi, which improves the experience: the actress, Emma de Caunes, makes her the best part of the movie. There's a funny internal monologue about her ass, how it makes the son realize he never really believed in God. Most of the movie is a contrived portrayal of bourgeois unhappiness leading to an olympics of hedonism. There's nothing to hail—ironic, because that's a point…

Who was this movie made for? It feels like a generic rom-com, the kind that’s marketed to women, but it’s tale is from a Male Gaze. Is it a noble subversion of a commercially “genderfied” genre? Not at all. So what is it?

It’s a bizarre attempt at multiculturalism. Each character represents a national identity, the kind that takes too much pride in territorial origins. These “archetypes” are pitted against one another, confronting the stereotypes each have about the other.…