Review of My Piece of the Pie

This movie starts out as a pleasant French romantic/comedy along the lines of "Pretty Woman" and "Maid in Manhattan" and you're lead to believe the villain will redeem himself and the heroine will win her man,much like Julia Roberts did with Richard Gere. It doesn't end up so,leaving one with a very disquieting feeling at the end as if the rug has been pulled out from under you.Maybe this is supposed to reflect the way the real world works,but after the wonderful initial set up,in the end you do feel like you've been set up.It inevitably seems under written with a need for a final chapter.Until it shifts gears though, it works,and you feel like you're in for another classic French romance.Even up to the very end you feel like it will shift back to it's light comedy form and everybody ends up happy,(American films do it all the time)but it steers it's way down a darker path of questionable value. I would still recommend this film just for the performance of Karin Viard,who plays France.