Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2006)

Good concept, poorly executed.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

I have no words to describe this movie, it's not the most amazing movie i've seen, but, it cracked me...It is a simple story, beautifully acted, beautifully written.I saw it not knowing what to expect, but i love Melanie Laurent, so i said well i'm giving this film a try, and when the movie ended... i was speechlessI is so real, it has so much emotion, there is no fancy things, no big things, no special effects, no no thing, it's just a feeling, the movie it's simply that, emotions.The simplicity of this movie, its beauty, everything about it is perfect.Watch it.. you won't regret it

Philippe Lioret is french movie director. Most peoples haven't even hear about him. here's what the movie is about.Elise,let's call her lily, is a twenty years old girls. When she comes back from Spain, her twin brother is not at home anymore. He has left home after he had intensively argued with his father, and lily's missing him a lot. Very soon, lily will be reproaching to her parents not to do enough to find him.This classic conflict between parents and their twenty years old daughter may seem ordinary, but.. But Melanie Laurent, who plays lily, is simply great. Kad merad who plays his father is astonishing too,just like every single character. the movie is becoming progressively more and more better. Although the movie beginning didn't seem to be fantastic, when i left the theater, i was thinking: what a slap in my face!!!And if you want to see a great movie that put in scene particular relationships between different peoples, that will blow you away,don't hesitate, go see this movie.

This is a very low budget movie. There is no very famous french actor starring in it, the director is not really famous. I went to see the movie with a friend who had already seen all the movies I wanted to see at that time. The most famous actor is Kad Merad, but he is not famous for is acting talents, but is famous for a show he presented on French TV. Nevertheless, I hope he will be famous one day for his acting talent. And I hope Melanie Laurent and Julien Boisselier will also be too. Because in such a low budget movie, you cannot hide the mediocrity of the actors or of the script behind great visual effects. And this movie fully complies with the " good actors and good script" thing. It is the story of middle class family with two kids living an ordinary life. Everything will be changed when the son, a musician leaves the house after a argument with his father. The daughter is completely moved by this. As we watch the movie, we'll feel a profound empathy with the actors. I hardy seen a movie where one can feel the subtle changes of feeling of the characters. It is so extraordinary that I wanted to applause at the end of the movie, as if there were comedians on a stage. It lost the kind of unreal thing that rises from the fact that it is a picture on a screen and sounds coming out of speakers. One last thing I'd like to mention is the main song of the movie. I was a little chocked by the fact the voice doesn't sound like a song made by a 20 year old boy. but it is really a magnificent one. it sounded to me like the best song Nick Cave had ever written, it is really a great one.

Philippe Lioret is a sound middle-of-the-road filmmaker; he doesn't do precious or pretentious and it's doubtful if the academics who genuflect to Godard will ever find him worth even a footnote. On the other hand if you enjoy thoughtful, well-crafted stories well directed and acted he's your man. He gave us a top of the line Chick Flick in Mademoiselle in which Sandrine Bonnair's sales rep encountered Jacque Gamblin's jobbing actor _ he was part of the entertainment at a sales conference - and spent a bittersweet twenty four hours with him before returning to her life; Lioret used Bonnaire again in L'Equippier and once again she was on the business end of a one night stand, this time with Gregori Derangere but the film also addressed the impact of the outsider on a small close-knit community. He scores heavily again in this one - it translates roughly as I'm Fine, Don't Worry About Me and Melanie Laurent is outstanding as a young girl (19) who comes back from holiday to find that her twin brother, Loic, has walked out of the house in the wake of a row with his father. The parents make light of this but she was very close to her brother as twins often are and winds up with clinical depression. When she recovers she moves heaven and earth to find him but it is, alas, never going to happen despite the postcards he keeps sending her telling her not to worry. It's Julien Boissoilier, in yet another fine performance, who inadvertently stumbles on the truth which I won't reveal as the film was only released today. Suffice it to say this is one to see again.