Synopsis
Rose Pamphyle lives with her widowed father and is destined to marry a son of the local mechanic. When she travels out of town and applies for a secretarial job with an insurance agency run by Louis Échard, he learns that Rose can type with extraordinary speed - using only two fingers. He tells her to compete in a speed-typing competition if she wants the job.
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Cast
- Romain DurisLouis Échard
- Déborah FrançoisRose Pamphyle
- Bérénice BejoMarie Taylor
- Shaun BensonBob Taylor
- Mélanie BernierAnnie Leprince Ringuet
- Nicolas BedosGilbert Japy
- Miou-MiouMadeleine Échard
- Eddy MitchellGeorges Échard
- Frédéric PierrotJean Pamphyle
- Marius ColucciLucien Échard
Recommendations
- 75
The Playlist
It’s not like “The Artist” was gritty, but Populaire is so cotton-candy breezy it makes the Best Picture-winner look like “The Panic in Needle Park.” - 70
Variety
A colorful and impeccably styled romantic comedy that manages to turn the speed-typing competitions of the 1950s into entertaining cinematic fodder. - 67
IndieWire
The problem, as with most romantic comedies, is that there are no shocks in the story. - 60
Empire
Offers plenty of easy nostalgia and Duris charm. - 60
Time Out London
It's très chic and charming but a bit disappointing when you see where it's headed. - 60
Total Film
No prizes for guessing who ends up with whom, but the colourful retro designs and the leads’ sparkling chemistry help to Tipp-Ex over some of the predictability. - 60
Time Out
If anything distinguishes director Régis Roinsard’s take on well-trod material, it’s his Technicolor-bright widescreen palette (recalling many a late-’50s pillow-talk romance without a hint of snooty irony) and energetically game cast. - 50
Slant Magazine
Candy-colored to a potentially cavity-causing degree, the film is a bubbly regurgitation of retrograde romantic comedy tropes and reactionary sexual politics.
