My Piece of the Pie

Released Dec 9, 2011

1h 49m

Comedy

Drama

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14 Reviews

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A woman (Karine Viard) takes a job as a maid at the home of a powerful broker (Gilles Lellouche) who had a hand in closing down the factory where she once worked.

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Disappointing work of Klapisch, full of cliches and technical errors. Waste of time.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Audience Member

Very dramatic even for its genre as the story progresses in an even fashion to reach an anticipated and quite unsatisfying ending. The performances however were profound especially that of the lead actress but unfortunate the slow and dull ending failed to give the movie a good rating.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Audience Member

Pas tenu plus de 25 min. Bouleversant de platitude et de clichés. Le jeu d'acteur fait mal aux dents. À éviter.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

Another quite good and non-formulaic french movie. This one is about an out-of-work single mother who just lost her job at a factory (which has been closed due to company outsourcing to Asia) and made a suicide attempt. She recovers and finds a nanny job with a wealthy stock-trader in Paris who turns out to be the very person who crashed her company's future for a quick profit. Interesting tension for sure.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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In "My Piece of the Pie," everything is coming up roses for Stephane(Gilles Lellouche), an investment banker, as he is promised a huge promotion in the future. That's not to mention his making time with Tessa(Marine Vacth), a beautiful supermodel. By comparison, his new maid, France(Karin Viard), had been laid off from work in Dunkirk, suffered a nervous breakdown, attempted suicide, failed at running a free day care center before moving to Paris, leaving her three kids behind in the care of relatives. There are some neat things about "My Piece of the Pie" like its attempt to say something meaningful about class and the informative lecture about buying and selling stocks. Otherwise, the movie has no idea what it really wants to be, as it is all over the map, both geographically and story wise. For example, the sequence in Venice is supposed to establish Stephane's lack of commitment but instead comes off as something much creepier. There is also a dance number set to "Pretty Woman," with all of the implications that the song now carries.(On the other hand, bonus points for the Serge Gainsbourg song.) And while the ending is meant to be celebratory in a corny sort of way, it is to be honest quite frightening.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

After a 20 year employment at a company comes to a screeching halt, a hardworking single mother finds herself struggling to piece together the remains of a failed suicide attempt. She ironically ends up finding a job cleaning the house of the man responsible for her current state and as time is spent with him, we begin to find out who he really is. My Piece Of The Pie was a good movie which explores the complications of socioeconomic hierarchies and the mindsets which accompany them.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Cédric Klapisch

Director

Karine Viard

France

Gilles Lellouche

Steve Delarue

Audrey Lamy

Josy la soeur de France

Jean-Pierre Martins

JP le mari de Josy

Raphaële Godin

Mélody

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A brilliant social satire, set during the ongoing international financial crisis, it stars the irresistibly forthright Karin Viard as a unionized worker...

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

True, the movie sidesteps a couple of cliches it seems headed directly toward, but I might have preferred them to the preposterous melodrama it substitutes.

Rated: 2.5/4

Feb 2, 2012

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

Paints an alluring picture of a pan-European cosmopolitan culture whose characters hopscotch from one country to another with hardly a second thought in a lighthearted floating party.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 8, 2011

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

Whether or not it fully works is questionable. In my opinion, it does not really, growing a bit exaggerated even for the world Klapisch has laid out. Yet the final act does make good thematically and, depending on your politics, quite satisfyingly so.

Feb 10, 2021

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Martin Tsai

Critic's Notebook

Unfortunately, "My Piece of the Pie" isn't the kind of indie charmer Mr. Klapisch used to make.

Oct 7, 2015

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Don Groves

sbs.com.au

An odious Master of the Universe learns some humanity from his maid.

Rated: 2.5/5

Feb 29, 2012

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Synopsis

A woman (Karine Viard) takes a job as a maid at the home of a powerful broker (Gilles Lellouche) who had a hand in closing down the factory where she once worked.

Director: Cédric Klapisch
Screenwriter: Cédric Klapisch
Distributor: IFC Films
Production Co: Banque Postale Image 4, Canal+, Ce Qui Me Meut Motion Pictures, C.R.R.A.V. Nord Pas de Calais, France 2 Cinéma, Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais, StudioCanal, CinéCinéma, France Télévision
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 9, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 1, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.2K
Runtime: 1h 49m

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