Romantics Anonymous - Tribeca Film Festival Review
23.02.81
Bland and predictable, but who cares? For the incurable Gallic romantic in all of us this is the film to see.
Cannes Film Festival award winner Jean-Pierre Améris (Youth French Film Award for “Les aveux de l'innocent” in 1996) teams up with seven-time Cesar nominee Isabelle Carré for a romantic romp amongst the romantically handicapped. Cannes award winner Benoît Poelvoorde plays chocolate factory owner Jean-Rene whose luck in love is as bad as his luck in business.
After generations of being the chocolate craved by the entire country, the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy. It would take a miracle to keep the venerable factory open and, as luck would have it, a miracle is knocking at the door.
The miracle is Angélique (Isabelle Carré) a young woman with a problem just like Jean-Rene’s, she is terribly shy. No, she is pathologically shy. She is so shy she ducks her head when she walks by a statue. Encouraged by her “Romantics Anonymous” group she strikes out for a job at the chocolate factory. After all, she is not only beautiful, but she is an expert chocolate maker.
Source: Monsters and Critics.com