Let It Rain (2008) NYT Critics' Pick

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IFC Films
Agnès Jaoui, from left, Jamel Debbouze and Jean-Pierre Bacri in “Let It Rain,” a comedy of manners directed by Ms. Jaoui.
You Have Issues? So Does Everybody
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: June 18, 2010

The personal is political in the films of Agnès Jaoui, a sort of Gallic Woody Allen whose comedies of manners reveal a sensibility acutely attuned to the tiniest nuances of the mind games people play. Ms. Jaoui’s films may lack Mr. Allen’s comic shtick, quotable one-liners and showy metaphysical angst, but they are precisely calibrated dissections of the pretensions and insecurities of the French chattering class. As critical as she can be of her characters, Ms. Jaoui portrays them with the evenhanded sympathy of a wise therapist who likes her clients despite their annoying foibles. More