A French film highly criticized by the press lands on Netflix

“A Certain Idea of ​​Hell”, “the finest, most rancid thing we’ve seen for a long time”, “We have rarely seen in such a long film, characters evolve so little”, “the film quickly sinks into caricature”… Some reviews, here Les Inrockuptibles, Chronic’art.com, Telerama or Positive were not tender when it was released in cinemas in 2010. And more generally, French critics were very divided about the film. However, The Little Handkerchiefs which arrives on the Netflix streaming platform on January 1 had conquered the public since more than 5,500,000 spectators went to see it in theaters at the time. Guillaume Canet’s feature film, his third after My idol and Do not tell anyonewas written by the director and features an exceptional cast, relatives of the latter: François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Magimel, Gilles Lellouche, Valérie Bonneton, Pascale Arbillot, Laurent Lafitte, Joël Dupuch, Louise Monot, Anne Marivin or Jean Dujardin…

The Little Handkerchiefsa story of special friendship

The Little Handkerchiefs, it’s a story of friendship, born after Guillaume Canet himself spent a month in the hospital, without any of his friends coming to see him. The pitch of the film? In Paris, in the early morning, Ludo comes out of a nightclub after a drunken evening. While driving quietly, he was hit head-on by a car and ended up in the hospital, seriously injured. It is a shock for Marie, her ex-companion, and all her friends. Despite Ludo’s state of health, the group decides to go on vacation, like every summer, to Cap-Ferret, to Max’s house.

The Little Handkerchiefsa sequel was born

Almost ten years after the release of this popular success, Guillaume Canet has released the sequel to the adventures of the band, We’ll end up together. We found the same essence there as in the first film and again, it was a success in theaters since more than 3 million people went to see it. The director had explained at the time of the release that if he had waited so long to make a sequel, it was simply because he had devoted himself to other projects until the day the click had arrived: “I wondered what they would have become today and it made me want to find them.“

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