Vor Salonlöwen wird gewarnt

With a writer such as Audiard and five talented stars ,you should not be wrong.However ,today ,Verneuil's movie sounds as unfunny Théatre De Boulevard .

A young girl from the Province,who just broke with her husband,comes to Paris to find her soul mate ;we follow her as she meets a trendy writer ,who wins the Femina literary prize by writing his new novel based on her character,then a grumpy surgeon who wants to take care of her health.All takes place in very chic places ,luxury flats,homes in the country ,and the whole shebang.

This is an exceptionally poor screenplay based on a novel by Nicole(?),a subject Audiard does not seem to find inspiring:in this posh milieu ,he simply cannot write these lines which generally hit home .Danielle Darrieux is a wonderful actress and it's the first time I've found her really bad,overplaying all over the place .Lino Ventura is miscast as the doctor :not surprising,he is self- conscious .Michèle Morgan and Jean-Claude Brialy ,as the wealthy confidant and the smug impotent novelist seem to be bored to death . As for Claudia Cardinale,I confirm that it's her voice we hear in the movie,but her part is conventional (see the bourgeois happy end,told by Morgan's voice over).

And Darrieux 's son is Marxist ,to boot!As she says ": "it's the fall of the house of Usher"!