2017 · comedy
With Open Arms
Directed by Philippe de Chauveron1h 32m2017
Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.
Our read: With Open Arms (2017) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
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