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Chinese Puzzle

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A 40-year-old divorced father of two cannot cope with his children moving to New York with their mother, so he moves there to be close to them.
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Pleasantly easygoing and consistently funny, Chinese Puzzle offers a suitably endearing conclusion to Cédric Klapisch's Trilogy of Xavier.

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Mark Kermode Observer (UK) Sweet. Rated: 3/5 Jun 22, 2014 Full Review Geoffrey Macnab Independent (UK) Klapisch has a tremendous cast and an enjoyably freewheeling approach to his subject matter. Rated: 4/5 Jun 20, 2014 Full Review Leslie Felperin Radio Times A warm, lovable movie that celebrates cultural pluralism and people's ability to mature. Rated: 3/5 Jun 20, 2014 Full Review Iván Kazi EscribiendoCine ... Mediocre and digestible comedy. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 7/10 Oct 18, 2022 Full Review David Lamble Bay Area Reporter ...the charming Duris gives a vivid performance in a story that is the male version of French auteur Julie Delpy's Two Days in New York. Jun 8, 2020 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Coasting mostly on the affable charm of its stars and likeable characters, this final chapter manages to walk a fine line between hopeful and melancholy as we at last leave them all behind. Rated: 2.5/5 Aug 30, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Matt W Massive fan of the first film and this one is about as exciting as the first sequel. Not needed but will film up 2 hours if you need to see what Xavier has been up to. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/20/24 Full Review Audience Member Funny, positive tone - nice to watch! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member A surprisingly fresh view on the character and his evolving story, Chinese Puzzle seems as quite an appropriate ending to a trilogy. Great performances from the cast and smooth directions make this a nice standalone movie. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member I though this movie was about a Chinese men making puzzles boy was I wrong. I went to Chinatown and ask the workers if they’ve seen this movie. They told me in Chinese. This a stupid title for a movie and it should’ve flopped. We discussed the movie at their favorite Chinese restaurant. And we laughed how garbage the movie is. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/31/20 Full Review Audience Member Saw this with my friend josh at his house. Josh is a Chinese major in school and for some reason this movie was in French. Josh put Chinese subtitles and started screaming while writing Chinese words. I told him to calm down and he started wrapping tefflin while doing it woodys face in toy story in The rocket scene. I left the house mad and called an Uber and josh texted me a week later asking if I wanted to go to China with him. I declined because they are communist Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/18/19 Full Review Audience Member Eight years after Russian Dolls, Xavier and his friends return for what will hopefully be the final chapter in this saga, Chinese Puzzle. At this point the character has become a father and husband, but there are signs that he still hasn’t grown up all that much. I appreciated that he at least appeared to care about his children, even though he still undervalues all the women in his life. But it never felt like he was horribly mistreating the women he was dating in this film like he has in other movies. He just helps his friend horribly mistreat women. His ideas about love and happiness are odd, and they continue to lead him down the wrong path. At this point in the saga I care so little about Xavier that getting invested in his struggles throughout this film is impossible. There were a couple nice moments with the other characters, but nothing that made watching Chinese Puzzle worthwhile. They have one scene that sets up how Xavier might find the right woman for him, and then they abandon that and act as though that was totally irrelevant and the right woman was nothing like what they described. It is just maddening to see how far these characters have come age-wise, and how little some of them have progressed in maturity. I’m glad I’ve finally completed this trilogy, because I want nothing more to do with Xavier. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 05/10/19 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A 40-year-old divorced father of two cannot cope with his children moving to New York with their mother, so he moves there to be close to them.
Director
Cédric Klapisch
Producer
Bruno Lévy, Gaëtan David, Cédric Klapisch, André Logie, Scott Koenig
Screenwriter
Cédric Klapisch
Distributor
Cohen Media Group
Production Co
Panache Productions, Ce Qui Me Meut, France 2 Cinéma, StudioCanal, La Compagnie Cinématographique Européenne
Rating
R (Nudity|Language|Sexual Content)
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Theaters)
May 16, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
May 22, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$335.4K
Runtime
1h 54m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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