Fabrice Luchini is one of a smattering of performers who appeared in an Eric Rohmer film early in his career and actually went on to have a career. Having cornered the market in quirky, surreal eccentrics he has not made as many films as one would like - some 60 odd in forty years but no doubt he would argue that this leaves him free to appear on the Paris stage regularly. Here he undertakes a role that most probably was tailored to his specific gifts as the critic who is celebrated for his review of a film he failed to see and from that starting point he stumbles from one embarrassment to another vacillating all the while between the girl incapable of fidelity and the one who is a nymphomaniac in all but name. Michel Piccoli tackles a cameo as though it were the lead and Sandrine Kiberlain demonstrates yet again how very accomplished an actress she is. Not for everyone but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Review of Nothing About Robert
