Apres Vous
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In Theaters : 2003
DVD Release : 08 November, 2005 |
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a sweet little bon bon
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The theme of AprA s Vous, a tasty little French treat, is that no good deed ever goes completely unpunished. More to the point, however, it is a tale of what happens when a Good Samaritan meets a Black Hole whose appetite and need for good deeds never ends.
Antoine is a head waiter at the sort of French restaurant we all dream of finding one of these days. The food looks fantastic, the service appears to be impeccable, and everything would be just rosy if Antoine could just learn to say No. Already late for a date one night, he just cannot help himself from staying after his shift is over and lending a hand to please the overflow crowd of hungry diners. Finally leaving to meet his girlfriend, Antoine makes a fateful decision when he cuts through a park and comes upon the sight of a man trying to hang himself from a tree. Antoine's humanitarian instincts take over and he saves the stranger, and thus begins a long spiral down into both comic absurdity and self-realization.
In short order he has taken the stranger in, fed him, clothed him, and retrieved a now-unnecessary suicide note from the man's temporarily blind grandmother. Trying desperately to keep her from the news that her grandson had tried to kill himself, he must simultaneously try to keep his charge from learning that it was Granny herself who convinced the man's girlfriend to leave him, thereby beginning his suicidal depression.
Unable to stop helping in spite of the cost these noble actions are having on his own life, Antoine gets the man, finally introduced as Louis, a job at Antoine's own restaurant, and then decides to track down Louis' lost love, Blanche, to somehow bring them back together.
What follows is classic opA ra bouffe, with four characters, Antoine, his girlfriend Christine, Louis, and Blanche, weaving their way through a wonderfully designed choreography. Along the way, Antoine learns a thing or two about his own life, Louis gets a new lease on his, Blanche finds happiness, and only the long-suffering Christine seems to get the short end of the stick. It all ends, as do all good French films, with a kiss...and a final bit of mayhem.
Yes, there are some logical quibbles and more than a few holes in the plot (not the least of which is how Antoine's restaurant can consistently function so well with half its staff either missing or intoxicated). On an emotional level, the viewer feels more than a bit cheated at not seeing at least some resolution of Christine's plight. But again, these are but minor points. This is not great theater, but it is a pleasing little comedy that anyone can enjoy. All in all, the perfect confection.
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