I saw DU JOUR AU LENDEMAIN about 3 weeks ago in the Angers European Film Festival, it was the first time Le Guay was presenting it to an audience so this was kind of a test for him. According to the great amount of laughter in the room, it seems most of the audience positively responded to this comedy about a French loser who is fed up with his life and his job. I personally thought it was a rather weak comedy. Poolevoorde isn't outstanding. Nevertheless he manages to give his character a good deal of credibility that makes him both moving and sensitive. The real problem that makes this film a little slow and boring isn't the acting nor is it the filming but a deeper problem : the STORY itself. It is inexistent. The plot is interesting - a man awakes one morning and finds out th everything that seemed dull and hateful in his life is now perfect and that makes him go nuts - but Le Guay doesn't make anything out of it and expects the initial situation to be good enough to last 1h30 without running out of steam. The characters aren't deep enough for us to care, the repercussions of such a disruption aren't clear and that gives us the impression, once out of the cinema, to have spent two hours without having seen anything worthwhile. It's a shame given that the movie ends with a rather cheesy and predictable happy end. A good point though for the short musical sequence that comes in as a break with the overall monotony of the movie.
Review of Du jour au lendemain
