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Audience Member Quite funny drama comedy. Well directed and lifelike generally speaking. It could have a bit more changes and twists in the story. It is pretty simple as it is, and it has no peak moments but even so, I think that its pretty nice, fun, and really quite well acted french drama comedy from 1974. Enchanting. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member A sweet and sour teenage comedy with an incredible Isabelle Adjani. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Very different from Le silencieux, but with Lino Ventura AND English actor Robert Hardy (whose French in Le silencieux was almost impeccable, by the way) all the same, La gifle is another quite well-known French movie by director Claude Pinoteau. Apart from some serious spy thrillers (like, again, Le silencieux and La septième cible), he also ventured on some more lighthearted stuff like La boum, La boum 2 and this relationship drama entitled La gifle. This film is not a comedy, but has some funny (though not hilarious) elements in it. It is between a laugh and a tear, really. The content is predictable and basically (too) simple, but that is all one can expect from this genre. In a nutshell, it is about frictional human relationships, and more in particular about the generation gap. One can see it all coming: Isabelle (Adjani) falls out with her father and tends to get closer to her mother. In the end things change for the better, of course, with a hint of an open ending (are Ventura and Girardot’s characters finally getting a divorce or are they perhaps getting back together – anyhow they’ll work things out between them). So the story is simple and lacking progression, though the dynamics within the scenes are definitely there. This is partly due to Adjani’s disarming teenager performance: she is the charming madcap this movie largely floats on. Ventura and Girardot are their own usual selves, which is excellent too. Adjani’s fellow students liven things up even more and create a nice background for the thematic generation gap to be painted against. I would also like to add that I liked the use of the different sorts of music as mood creators, both in the background and in the scenes themselves. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Quite funny drama comedy. Well directed and lifelike generally speaking. It could have a bit more changes and twists in the story. It is pretty simple as it is, and it has no peak moments but even so, I think that its pretty nice, fun, and really quite well acted french drama comedy from 1974. Enchanting. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Pour Ventura, qui est toujours interessant. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Souvenirs souvenirs ! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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