Pas une critique!

Vu sur France Télévision, hommage à Jean-François Stévenin.

A man falls upon the photo of a childhood friend and suddenly seeks him. It's not too long before they set out on reuniting with the third member of the band, and it's not long either before the viewers start to guess that the missing man was in fact their whipping boy...

What sounds at first like a simple plan of a movie with weird/fun video and audio editing and pleasant visuals (colours and light), after featuring a scene that seemed cut straight out of a thriller, rapidly reveals itself as an organised but terrible mess with Carole Bouquet's character (so beautiful she seemed to come from another film herself) hijacking the whole thing. Jeopardizing it or making it even more unique, it's left to the audience's judgement...

This "non-abduction story" seems interested in its duo then trio's interactions and might be about the temptation to return to your youth days, Stévenin's character doing exactly that over the 80mn and "Léo" having visibly never left adolescence.
All the while, you certainly get a sense of fun behind the making of this film and its editing.

Score: ?/10
Enjoyment: 3/5
I can't judge something I don't get, but it makes me curious about Stévenin's other directorial/writing works.

PS: The restoration looks incredible, but the video looks so smooth it loses the marks of its year.

A more telling review here: www.frenchfilms.org/review/double-messieurs-1986.html