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      Park Benches

      2009 1h 50m Comedy List
      Reviews 33% Audience Score 250+ Ratings A film tells of a man sitting on a park bench who is observed by several people. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Credit given for the seeming intention to allow for a consistent droll humor from beginning to end; the unfortunate result is a consistently unfunny movie with zero plausibility despite its sweetness Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review camille l Bancs Publics est construit sur trois grosses séquences peuplées de multiples personnages : une dans un bureau, une dans un jardin public et une dans un magasin de bricolage. S'ensuivent alors un nombre ahurissant de personnages qui se créent en quelques secondes, quasiment tous interprétés par des acteurs reconnaissables, là pour délivrer une punchline ou un petit sketch. Si la première partie est un peu faiblarde malgré Josiane Balasko & Hippolyte Girardot, les deux suivantes sont beaucoup plus réussies (surtout la troisième avec Philippe Uchan), avec une mise en scène plutôt habile de Bruno Podalydès, qui se fait très évasive dans le parc et beaucoup plus resserrée dans le magasin, sans pour autant succomber à une structure épisodique. Bancs Publics est souvent drôle, parfois touchant et très bien interprété. Une réussite. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member funny a 3 yuck pic but not that funny Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Un peu foufou, et très drôle. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review walter m The messy and amiable "Park Benches" is the kind of movie that shows why god created film editors in the first place. It all starts off innocently enough as Lucie(Florence Muller) commutes to work where she does little except play Pac Man when her supervisor is not looking. And that's before her and her colleagues Pascale(Chantal Lauby) and Amandine(Emeline Bayart) notice a banner across the way that says "Solitary Man." So, while Solange(Josiane Balasko), on her last day before retirement, is distracted, they go to investigate, before Borelly(Pierre Arditi), a company executive, shows up. And that's the first section which is pleasant enough. And then the movie shifts to a park where a wide variety of characters interact. That would have been fine for an interlude, if not for... ...the hardware store in a sequence that goes on forever. Making matters worse, it only serves the movie's limited ambitions to tell quick jokes before moving on, sort of like "Laugh In," which it references, with cameos from the likes of Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Gourmet, Emmanuelle Devos and Catherine Deneuve. Except none of it is really that funny and is on the order of slapstick or poor Borelly mangling the French language. Oh, yes, the original mystery is eventually resolved but not to much satisfaction. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Very funny... Alil weird Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A film tells of a man sitting on a park bench who is observed by several people.
      Director
      Bruno Podalydès
      Screenwriter
      Bruno Podalydès
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      French (Canada)
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Aug 4, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 50m
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