Synopsis
Crustacés et coquillages is a fresh French comedy film with numerous surprise turnarounds and about the tolerance of a family of four. The family spend an idealistic summer vacation together where each of the family members gets involved in a new or old relationship.
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Cast
- Valeria Bruni TedeschiBéatrix
- Gilbert MelkiMarc
- Jean-Marc BarrDidier
- Jacques BonnafféMathieu
- Édouard CollinMartin
- Romain TorresCharly
- Sabrina SeyvecouLaura
- Yannick BaudinMichaël
- Julien WeberSylvain
- Sébastien CormierLaura's New Friend
Recommendations
- 80
Los Angeles Times
This is a sophisticated adult treat in the French manner with an attractive and gifted cast and is essentially serious, yet often whimsical and always compassionate. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
The performances are mediocre. The heart is big. The weather is swell. - 70
Salon
A finely balanced piece of comedic machinery. - 63
New York Daily News
You know this movie is French (apart from the subtitles), because everyone looks great, gets naked and later breaks into a peppy musical number about the joys of lobster and shellfish. - 50
The A.V. Club
In the end, all these sexual shenanigans just provide an excuse to play some seductive music and drink in some seaside scenery. Ah, Europe. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
In Ducastel's and Martineau's hands all the unpleasantness blows away like a kiss on a soft summer breeze, a light wind that nevertheless leaves a vaguely unpleasant scent in its wake. - 40
L.A. Weekly
Bruni-Tedeschi is her usual radiantly libidinal presence, but channeling Bette Midler doesn't become her, and even she can't redeem all the redundant vaudeville carry-on. - 30
The New York Times
Neither funny nor sexy, nor leavened by the wistful laissez-faire wisdom of the typical sophisticated Gallic comedy, it is less than a trifle.
