What Happens When A Rom-Com Has No Tone
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French Lover somehow became a Netflix hit, and we walked in expecting a charming French rom-com with Omar Sy and walked out asking how so many scenes made it past the final draft. We’re not doing a polite “maybe it’s just not for us” review, either. We talk through the exact moments where the movie loses emotional logic, why the pacing feels like it’s on fast-forward, and how the tone swings so hard that arguments and romantic turns land like they were stitched together from different films.
We also dig into the celebrity culture angle the story wants to explore: an A-list…
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