THREE CESAR NOMINATIONS!
Best Actor (Chabat), Actress (Gainsbourg), Supporting Actress (Laffont)
The runaway French box office sensation of the recent holiday season (with over four million admissions to date!) was this immensely satisfying romantic comedy about a softhearted bachelor who pays a free-spirited young woman to pose as his fiancée.
Forty-three-year-old Luis (Alain Chabat) has avoided serious relationships since his jovially domineering mother (Bernadette Lafont) and five sisters drove off his true love when he was in his twenties. He makes out fine with women, and enjoys his job at an upscale Paris perfumery, but the six femmes in Luis’ family, fed up with doing his laundry and shopping, resolve to find him a spouse whether he likes it or not. To halt the constant matchmaking, Luis contracts a colleague’s sister, Emma (Charlotte Gainsbourg) to pose as his bride-to-be. Her brief is to win over the family, and then stand him up on their wedding day. But of course, the charade takes an unforeseen turn…
The intelligently paced I DO is a witty take on the great American romantic comedies of the thirties. Gainsbourg has never been better, by turns charmingly resourceful, hurtful and odious - but always delectable. A real treat.
France 2006 - Romantic Comedy (90 mins)
In French with English Subtitles
Director: Eric Lartigau
Script: Laurent Zeitoun, Phillipe Mechelen, Laurent Tirard,
Gregoire Vigneron, Alain Chabat
Cast: Alain Chabat, Charlotte Gainsboug, Bernadette Lafont