A very positive review by Afp for Les uns sur les autres and Agnes Jaoui's performance (January 24, 2014) - In French

A very positive review by Afp for the play Les uns sur les autres and Agnes Jaoui's performance (January 24, 2014) - In French:

 Agnès Jaoui, de retour au théâtre, fait mouche dans "Les uns sur les autres" 
Publié le 25/01/2014 à 07H42

 PARIS, 24 jan 2014 (AFP) - Vingt ans après la pièce "Un air de famille", Agnès Jaoui revient à ses premières amours, le théâtre, dans une pièce jubilatoire au Théâtre de la Madeleine, "Les uns sur les autres"....


...Le tout ne manque ni de rythme, ni de profondeur. On rit d'autant mieux qu'on se reconnaît dans certaines réparties de cette chronique familiale, comme lorsque la mère prêche à ses rejetons "les fondamentaux: Gandhi, Bouddha, tout ça!". Sans parler de la psychologie à la petite semaine: "l'ostéopathe et l'acupuncteur sont formels: le mal de dos, c'est le passé!" Bref, la famille, on l'aime, surtout quand c'est Agnès Jaoui qui la fait tenir debout...To read all the review click here

Review on the Romanian blog Emmerdeur for Sfârşit de basm (Au Bout du conte) - January 9, 2014 - In Romanian

Review on the Romanian blog Emmerdeur for Sfârşit de basm (Au Bout du conte) (January 9, 2014) - In Romanian:


 FILM: Au bout du conte / Sfârşit de basm, de Agnès Jaoui Agnès Jaoui şi Jean-Pierre Bacri, pe lângă vieţile lor separate de actori, fabrică, din timp în timp, câte o povestioară trist-comică, şi în calitate de co-scenarişti. Au bout du conte, ultima lor ispravă, e un film cuminte în comparaţie cu anterioarele.... To read all the review click here

Very nice review for Under regnbuen (Au bout du conte) on DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) site

The movie has been released in Denmark on November 28:

Flere forfjamskede franskmænd for fuld musik 
Ægteparret Agnès Jaoui og Jean-Pierre Bacri er eksperter i komedier om moderne franskmænd 


" ...Siden succesen med 'Se på mig' i 2004 har Agnès Jaoui og hendes medforfatter og ægtemand Jean-Pierre Bacri opdyrket deres eget lille felt med beske komedier om eksistentielle fortrædeligheder, ofte i en ironisk ramme. 'Under regnbuen' leger fx med klichéer fra eventyrene. Der er feer i børnehaven, de små børn spiller et teaterstykke, hvor prinsessen skal kysse prinsen, hvilket hun i øvrigt ikke har lyst til, den unge kvinde, der farer vild i skoven, viser sig at drømme om prinsen på den hvide hest, på et tidspunkt danser hun med en genert mand, der skal skynde sig videre til en anden aftale og som stikker af fra natklubben og taber den ene sko og om et par, der får hinanden sidst i filmen, får vi at vide at de levede lykkeligt til deres dages ende og lavede en masse fejl....
To read all the review click here

Total Film Review for Looking for Hortense dvd release in Uk on December 2

Looking For Hortense 
Hang on, it's somewhere... 

Nov 30th 2013 By Simon Kinnear

 When Iva (Kristin Scott Thomas) asks husband Damien (Jean-Pierre Bacri) to beg a favour of his estranged father, it prises open their own differences in Pascal Bonitzer’s French comedy-drama. This is an enjoyably affable affair: a mid-life crisis flecked with farce and magic realism. At its best, the plot recalls the downward spiral of A Serious Man, and Bacri’s performance is a hangdog delight.... to read all the review click here

Very nice new review for Un air de famille from A.V Club (November, 26, 2013)

Very nice new review for Un air de famille from A.V Club (November, 26, 2013)

Here’s a French comedy worth hunting down

"Though Jaoui has gone on to be a notable filmmaker in her own right (see: The Taste Of Others, Look At Me), Un Air De Famille was directed by Cédric Klapisch (L’Auberge Espagnole, Russian Dolls), who does a magnificent job of keeping the film from feeling stagebound despite its single location. But the real star is Jaoui and Bacri’s screenplay, which establishes a few nuggets of insecurity and resentment early on and then gradually escalates them into full-blown comic crises, in the tradition of something like Fawlty Towers. To read all the review click here

very Positive Review and Trailer with subs in English for Under the rainbow (Au Bout du conte), in the program of Vancouver International Film Fest

From Straight.com, Very Positive Review and Trailer with subtitles in English for Au Bout du conte, in the program of Vancouver International Film Fest:

AGNÈS JAOUI’S LATEST social comedy finds the veteran writer-director also in a supporting role, as a ditzy day-care worker whose classroom fairytale enactments set the tone for colour-soaked, fable-like events that enfold her wealthy niece and a poor young composer who, shall we say, loses his slipper at the ball. Jean-Pierre Bacri, the filmmaker’s partner (in writing and life), plays the composer’s grumpy driving instructor dad, and French pop singer Benjamin Biolay is appropriately saturnine as music impresario called Max Wolf! It’s one of the fest’s surest pleasures.

Agnes Jaoui with the Taste of others (Le gout des autres), among the best female directors debuts list by Playlist

Agnes Jaoui with the Taste of others (Le gout des autres), among the "Best female directors debuts" list by the famous movie site Playlist:

The Taste of Others” (2000) -- Agnès Jaoui A lighthearted ensemble comedy of manners, French film and TV actress Agnès Jaoui’s directorial debut could be accused of being too firmly mired in the rarefied stratosphere of white, middle-class people’s problems, if it didn’t have such a sharp take on that very milieu’s foibles and contradictions. In fact, this very funny, hugely endearing relationship comedy is in the vein of Woody Allen, with its deadpan characterization meaning pretty much every swing it takes at the absurdity of middle-class, middle-aged life and its assorted pretensions, lands in a well-earned punch(line). The chorus of characters brought into collision breaks down like this: Castella (Jean-Pierre Bacri) is a well-off business owner who, for insurance purposes, has to be followed around by two bodyguards Frank and Bruno (Gerard Lanvin and Alain Chabat) until a certain lucrative contract is signed.... To Read all the analysis click here

New positive reviews on British media for looking for Hortense (Cherchez Hortense), with Jean Pierre Bacri and Scott Thomas

New positive reviews on British media  for looking for Hortense (Cherchez Hortense), with Jean Pierre Bacri and Scott Thomas:

From Viewlondon:
"Jean-Pierre Bacri is excellent as Damien, whose business-related language abilities somehow always fail him when it comes to his personal life; he also has a nice line in comically bewildered dumbfoundedness. Kristin Scott Thomas is equally good as Iwa, though her subplot is disappointingly ignored by the script, since the story unfolds largely from Damian's point of view.To read all the interview click here

From Filmlist
"...the most involving performance here is that of Bacri, who excels in the role of the rumpled, procrastinating middle-aged man, eventually forced into decisive action. Bonitzer directs with a pleasingly light touch, and amidst all the playful references to classic Russian literature, Asiatic mores and Freudian theories, there’s a serious critique of how, in Sébastien’s words, “repugnant sectarianism” is undermining the capacity of French society to tolerate difference and cherish diversity amongst its citizens...To read all the interview click here

From Moviemail
"...That there is no obvious tonal disconnect is down to Bacri’s very skilled, unsparing depiction of a particular kind of gruff, shrugging Gaul: a lecturer who hasn’t paid the slightest bit of attention to the things that matter – whether his wife, his extended family’s needs, or the Asian time-management techniques he’s teaching – and who somehow comes to represent Western blinkeredness in the face of Eastern expansionism...."To read all the interview click here


From HeyUGuys:
"...With a sharp and witty screenplay, Looking for Hortense is a picture that manages to be unique of its own right, while faithfully abiding by the notions of the romantic comedy, staying within the boundaries and using conventionality to its advantage. In the meantime, it’s always pleasing to see elderly parents with important, plot affecting roles – something we see so often in French cinema, and would no doubt be gratefully received on a more consistent basis in Hollywood...." To read all the interview click here

Very positive reviews for Looking for Hortense with Bacri and Scott Thomas from Sky Movies and Empire

Some of the new positive reviews from english media Sky, Empire, for Looking for Hortense (Cherchez Hortense), By pascal Bonitzer with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Carrè and Kristin scott Thomas. The movie will be out in Uk on August 9.



From Sky Movies
 "Bacri's Damien nimbly shifts between the comedy of frustration and genuinely moving melodrama. Success with his father would elevate Damien in his wife’s eyes and may even rekindle a spark in their marriage. Scott Thomas is on typical top form as Damien’s theatre director spouse Iva, rapidly losing interest in her husband and basically estranged from their acerbic adolescent son Noe (the witheringly droll Marin Orcand Tourrès). to read all the review click here

From Empire: "Despite never quite concealing its climactic twist, this is an astute social satire that uses the break-up of a bourgeois marriage to assess France's position in an ever-changing world. Eloquently scripted and exceptionally played, this is chic, if self-consciously slick". to read all the review click here

Positive review for Au Bout du conte on le Journal de Quebec (August 3, 2013)

Positive review for Au Bout du conte written by Cedric Belanger on Le Journal de Quebec (August 3, 2013) :

Le prince charmant n’existe pas... 
Au bout du conte remet les clichés des histoires de notre enfance et la fidélité en question

"Dans la comédie Au bout du conte, Cendrillon est un garçon, la cruelle belle-mère de Blanche-Neige a recours à la chirurgie esthétique pour conserver sa beauté et le grand méchant loup est l’une des plus brillantes stars de la musique française. Le tandem Agnès Jaoui — Jean-Pierre Bacri, qui cosigne le scénario d’Au bout du conte (Jaoui le réalise), a farci son nouveau film de références aux contes de notre enfance, concoctant ainsi une agréable comédie romantique dans laquelle l’amour avec le prince charmant et tout le tralala en prend plein la gueule."

 "...Agnès Jaoui et Jean-Pierre Bacri se distinguent au sein d’une solide équipe d’acteurs formée de jeunes talents français et de vétérans. Quant à Benjamin Biolay l’acteur (il compte quelques films à son palmarès déjà), il se débrouille très bien dans la peau d’un personnage qui n’est pas sans rappeler Benjamin Biolay le musicien...."To read all the review click here

Another positive review from the Brazilian News site O vale for Além do Arco-Íris (Au bout du conte) by Agnes Jaoui

Another positive new review from the Brazilian News site O vale for Além do Arco-Íris (Au bout du conte) by Agnes Jaoui (In portuguese):

 Uma Fábula moderna

 "...O filme se faz do encontro nem sempre harmonioso dessas duas instâncias, e a confluência entre elas provoca uma série de pequenos e estranhos acontecimentos. Um peixe voando no meio de uma sala, um pai que atira um objeto para sua criança pegar como se fosse um cachorro, uma mãe que só revela seu envelhecimento físico quando sabe da notícia de um casamento e outras maluquices inseridas pela diretora, por vezes de modo arbitrário. Essa estranheza toda faz com que “Além do Arco-Íris” seja tortuoso, errático. É um desses acidentes que constroem obras vivas, abertas à inteligência do público. De forma um tanto trôpega, Agnès Jaoui, que ainda está longe de ser uma grande cineasta, conseguiu uma agradável sintonia com a obra de Alain Resnais."To read all the review click here

Very positive review for Au bout du conte on La Presse Canada

Very Positive review by Marc Cassivi for Au bout du conte on La Presse Canada:

Au bout du conte : une satire délicieuse 

  "...Et s'il n'est pas aussi abouti qu'Un air de famille (de Cédric Klapisch) ou On connaît la chanson (d'Alain Resnais) - scénarisés par le même tandem dans les années 90 -, s'il semble plus éparpillé et laisse parfois une impression de redite, il est truffé des répliques pleines d'esprit et des dialogues drôlement caustiques que les admirateurs du couple apprécient depuis leurs débuts.
 Comme à son habitude, Agnès Jaoui s'est aussi mise en scène. Mais c'est Bacri, incarnant une fois de plus un personnage de bougon au coeur tendre, qui vole la vedette. Dans le rôle d'un homme désabusé et maussade ne croyant en rien, qui se met à craindre sa mort imminente annoncée jadis par une voyante, il est simplement irrésistible..."To read all the review click here

Another Positive review on the swiss news site Tages Woche for Au Bout du conte by Agnes Jaoui just released in German Switzerland (July 19) - In german

Another Positive review on the swiss news site Tages Woche for Au Bout du conte by Agnes Jaoui just released in German Switzerland (July 19) - In german:



 Märchenhafte Liebe

 Agnès Jaoui ist eine hellwache Beobachterin. Wenn sie mit Jean-Pierre Bacri ein Drehbuch schreibt, dann besteht die Welt um die beiden herum aus lauter kleinen Zufälligkeiten, die sie sich jederzeit erzählen können. Der Schauspieler Bacri ist vor der Kamera der Meister der Andeutung. Er braucht eine Pointe noch nicht einmal mehr auszusprechen. Wir schmunzeln schon, wenn er anfängt zu murmeln. Die Liebesgeschichte, die Bacri und Jaoui erfunden haben, hat kaum einen narrativen Faden. Aber sie ist voller wunderbarer Zufälle, die erst in der Zusammenschau sich in unserem Kopf zusammensetzen. Jaoui bebildert diese Liebesgeschichte wie ein Märchen, und doch wirkt ihre Wirklichkeit nicht märchenhaft: Wenn auch ein Fisch durch die Wohnung schwebt, wenn auch die Pflanzen grellbunt wie im Aquarium sind: In Wirklichkeit fiebern wir dem 14. März entgegen, jenem Tag, an dem Pierre sterben soll. Je mehr er darüber nachdenkt, desto mehr kommt er sich vor, als lebe er bereits unter Wasser und nicht unter Menschen. To read all the review click here

Very positive review on the Polish magazine Polytika, for Książę nie z tej bajki (Au bout du conte by Agnes Jaoui),that will be released in Poland on July 26

Very positive review on the Polish magazine Polytika, for Książę nie z tej bajki (Au bout du conte) by Agnes Jaoui,that will be released in Poland on July 26:


 Janusz Wróblewski
23 lipca 2013

 Recenzja filmu:

"Książę nie z tej bajki", reż. Agnès Jaoui Zabawny, pełen wdzięku, choć odrobinę za długi film. 




 "Ceniona nad Sekwaną francuska piosenkarka, aktorka, scenarzystka, a od 13 lat również reżyserka filmowa Agnès Jaoui często bywa porównywana do Woody’ego Allena. Jej wielowątkowe, osadzone w środowisku paryskiej inteligencji melodramaty (m.in. „Gusta i guściki”, „Popatrz na mnie”) kręcą się wokół niedopasowania, odwiecznych problemów podszytych beznadziejnymi pytaniami o sens życia i sztuki. „Książę nie z tej bajki” to jej czwarta satyryczno-obyczajowa komedia poświęcona nie tyle miłosnym perypetiom z nierozwiązywalnymi dylematami moralnymi w tle, co kwestii przesądów, wartości nadających odmienny kierunek ludzkim zachowaniom. Humor widoczny jest w dążeniu do konfrontacji różnych strategii życiowych. Reżyserka celowo podkreśla dużą różnicę wieku i całkiem odmienny bagaż doświadczeń bohaterów, decydujący o tym, w co oni chcą lub są zmuszeni wierzyć. To read all the review click here

Very nice review from Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, for Au bout du conte that would be released in German Switzerland on July 18 (article in german)

Very nice review from Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, for Au bout du conte that would be released in German Switzerland on July 18 (article in german):

  «Au bout du conte» – Modernes Märchen in Paris 
Heute, 15:34 Uhr
Michael Sennhauser



 Jean-Pierre Bacri und Agnès Jaoui: Die beiden sind leidenschaftliche Schauspieler und schreiben gemeinsam Drehbücher. Die Regie allerdings überlässt Bacri gerne Jaoui. Nun erforschen sie mit dem Kinomärchen «Au bout du conte» gemeinsam die Gefahren einer jungen Liebe mit Wolf und Prinzessin.To read all the review click here

Unter dem Regenbogen (Au Bout du conte) by Agnes Jaoui will be released in germany on October 17. 2013 - Kino Zeit review (in german) and trailer

Kino Zeit published a great review for Unter dem Regenbogen (Au Bout du conte) by Agnes Jaoui, screened at Munich film festival and let us know that the release date in Germany is October 17.2013:

"... und sie lebten glücklich und zufrieden bis an ihr Lebensende" heißt es, wenn sich am Schluss eines Märchens Prinz und Prinzessin in den Armen liegen. An dieser titelgebenden Stelle beginnt Au bout du conte (der deutsche Titel lautet kaum weniger verträumt Unter dem Regenbogen), die neue Komödie des französischen Filmemacher-Paares Agnès Jaoui und Jean-Pierre Bacri. Ein Leben jenseits des Märchens ist in modernen Beziehungszeiten doch meistens mit unangenehmen Details gefüllt: Enttäuschung, Trennung, Angst vor dem Alleinsein.To read all the review click here Trailer with German subtitles

Very detailed review for Au bout du conte in dvd by Agnes Jaoui

Very detailed review (in French) on L'heure de la sortie for Au bout du conte in dvd: Four stars for the movie, but the bonus could have been better (no making of is a pity indeed):


 "Ils se sont mis à deux pour écrire le scénario. L’objectif valait bien une telle complicité. « Au bout du conte » c’est une écriture magnifique, si naturelle que l’on n’imagine ni le poids des mots, ni leur signification. Ils s’entendent comme une petite musique de cinéma, qui ne s’arrêterait jamais. Les dialogues, les situations, même les plus insolites, coulent de source, fluides, dans ce récit qui entre légende et réalité, se faufile au gré des humeurs. Au lecteur-spectateur de se frayer un passage, et dieu sait que les chemins ne manquent pas dans ce foisonnement d’idées et de bonheur conjugués. Malgré des rapports conflictuels, le mal être d’une gamine , et le désamour qui va et vient"... To read the rest of the review click here

An Early review on the german site Digitaldvd for Unter dem Regenbogen (Au Bout du conte) by Agnes Jaoui that will be released in Germany in September

German site Digital Dvd reviews positively Au Bout du conte (that's been screened in various French Film Festivals and at Munich Film Festival in Germany). The movie will be released in the Country in september with the title Unter dem Regenbogen:

AU BOUT DU CONTE startet im September Seit ihrem gemeinsamen Durchbruch als Drehbuchautoren und Schauspieler in Alain Resnais „Das Leben ist ein Chanson“, gelten Agnès Jaoui und Jean-Pierre Bacri als das Dreamteam des Französischen Arthauskinos. Mit Filmen wie „Lust auf anderes“ und „Schau mich an“ haben sie bei der unterhaltsamen Beobachtung bürgerlichen Lebens in Frankreich Maßstäbe gesetzt. „Unter dem Regenbogen“ ist wieder ein unterhaltsames Stück Kino-Boulevardtheater, amüsant und nachdenklich über die bundschillernden Verwicklungen und Herausforderungen des Lebens, wie es nur aus Frankreich kommen kann.To read the rest of the review click here

Very positive review for The Dandelions (Du Vent dans mes mollets) with Agnes Jaoui on Boston Globe (In English)

Boston Globe published a very positive review for The Dandelions by Carine Tardieu, the dramedy with Agnes Jaoui that is included in Boston French Film Festival:



 "More Jewish characters and a winning mix of poignancy and humor distinguish Carine Tardieu's “The Dandelions” (Du vent dans mes mollets, screening July 25 and 28), a coming-of-age story that triumphs over cliché thanks to its terrific cast and inventive direction. Children in French films are usually light-years from Hollywood cuteness, and this film’s 9-year-old protagonist, Rachel (Juliette Gombert), is no exception. She lives with her loving but overprotective mother (Agnès Jaoui, not afraid to look haggard) and Holocaust-survivor father (Comédie Française vet Denis Podalydès), a renovator of kitchens who has let his own family’s home decay in 1980s provincial France. Rachel acquires a new best friend, the spunky and lovable Valérie (Anna Lemarchand). Together, they offer a wonderfully realistic and fanciful portrait of girlhood." To read the other reviews of the movies in the Boston French Fillm festival click here

Very nice review of the theatre adaptation in London of Un air de famille (A family Affair) the play by Jaoui and Bacri at Drayton Arms Theatre

Very nice review on Everything Theatre of the adaptation in London of Un air de famille (A family Affair)  the play by Jaoui and Bacri at Drayton Arms Theatre:

A Family Affair, Drayton Arms Theatre Agnes Jaoui & Jean-Pierre Bacri Directed by Christine Renard ★★★ Pros: Strong acting and expert timing elevated the play to a wonderful level of comic hilarity. Cons: A couple of slip ups in the dialogue. Our Verdict: A witty play that explores the all too familiar genre of family dramas in the midst of accessible, enjoyable comedy. To read all the review click here