Three's Company may be long gone, but its legacy of incorrectly interpreted conversations and mistaken identities and motivations lives on in dreary rom-coms like Hôtel Normandy. Charles Nemes's film is a decidedly sitcom-y affair in which widowed French banker Alice (Héléna Noguerra) is sent on a resort holiday by her friends, who have blackmailed an in-debt client to have a fling with her. Complications ensue when that contracted Romeo farms out his duties to his buffoonish brother, Yvan (Ary Abittan), and Alice winds up instead falling head over heels for wealthy suitor Jacques (Eric Elmosnino)—all while accepting from him, and then giving away, a valuable painting that Jacques's ex-wife, Hélène (Annelise Hesme), suspects Alice a...
- 9/25/2013
- Village Voice
Check out the new trailer for Charles Nemes' Hotel Normandy, starring Héléna Noguerra and Eric Elmosnino. Opens September 27, 2013 via Rialto Premieres and is scripted by Jean-Paul Bathany and Stéphane Ben Lahcene. "When two people who no longer believe in love find each other, nothing can get in the way of their blossoming romance – except for a playful farce of miscues, meddling and mistaken identity. During one fated weekend at the eponymous seaside resort, lovers, friends and rivals all find their personal destinies. Starring Héléna Noguerra as Alice, a banker whose husband’s recent death has kept her out of the dating pool, and Eric Elmosnino (winner of the César Award for Best Actor for his role in Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life) as Jacques, an art dealer with...
- 9/12/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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