2005 · comedy
Housewarming
Directed by Brigitte Roüan1h 35m2005
Chantal, an advocate involved in defending homeless illegal immigrant, decides to refurbish her flat. Following her convictions she calls Columbian workers led by an unforeseeable architect. In the mean time a former client decides he is in love with her, her son and daughter are becoming nearly homeless since the flat's walls are demolished, the architect has new plans every day, an irregular workers fall in love with Chantal too and dance with her daughter, Martin (the son) still continue to roller blade around... Could the works go forward in this mess?
Our read: Housewarming (2005) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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