2020 · comedy
The Speech
Directed by Laurent Tirard1h 27m2020
Meet Adrien! He's 35. He's stuck in a mid-life crisis. He's neurotic and hypochondriac. Tonight he's stuck in an endless family dinner and his girlfriend is not answering his texts. On top of that, his dumb brother-in-law asks him to prepare a speech for his wedding. Could it get even worse?
Our read: The Speech (2020) reads as a warm, steady, inventive comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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