2014 · comedy
SMS
Directed by Gabriel Julien-Laferrière1h 24m2014
At 9:00, Laurent receives a worrying text message. 9:01, his mobile's stolen. 9:30, his son disappears. 10:00, his house burns down. 10:15, his wife leaves him. 10:30, his company goes bankrupt. 11:00, he's in custody. The day's got off to a bad start.
Our read: SMS (2014) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- funny
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How SMS feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a fast French comedy of one man's worst day snowballing.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if disaster-chain comedies make you stressed rather than amused.
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