Reviews
Empire Magazine
David Hughes
“Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche, who write, direct and star in the Las Vegas section, are highly watchable comic actors, and what emerges is a film of wit and style, often very funny — and surprisingly sad.”
03/07/2012
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The Financial Times
Nigel Andrews
“The theme is adultery: the priapism of the married male. The style is anything-goes. It is brave of Dujardin, debonair centre of recent Oscar glory, to hazard his charisma with 107 minutes largely consisting of mugging and bonking. You see more of him in some stories, in every sense, than you expected.”
05/07/2012
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The Guardian
Henry Barnes
“Jean Dujardin – charm personified in his Oscar-winning turn in The Artist – lets his inner bro show in the lairiest of this series of short films about infidelity. The silent Oscar hit didn't have a sex scene, but it's to hard imagine "I'm touching liver!" popping up as a title card if it did.”
05/07/2012
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Time Out
Guy Lodge
“ If anything, it’s the French who should be aggrieved by this jazzy but predictably uneven portmanteau film, which goes out of its way to confirm the stereotype of Frenchmen as over-cologned, unfaithful horndogs. ”
05/07/2012
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The Times
Wendy Ide
“The film caused something of a scandal in France on its release for its crass poster campaign and general lack of class. But in fact, the lack of class is not what sinks this mindlessly repetitive bedroom farce — it’s the complete lack of wit and originality. ”
06/07/2012
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Total Film
Tom Dawson
“It’s telling that only one of the shorts is directed by a woman; greater female input might have alleviated the film’s tiresome chauvinism.”
29/06/2012
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The Independent on Sunday
Demetrios Matheou
“Comedy isn't the French forte, and nor, it seems, is clear thinking about male mores. In Guillaume Canet's recent Little White Lies, the only man you didn't want to throttle was in a coma. That character was played by Jean Dujardin, who in The Players not only gets to walk and talk, but also write, direct and produce. I can only imagine that his success with The Artist left him light in the head.”
08/07/2012
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The Independent
Anthony Quinn
“Do the French find this stuff funny? Perhaps their more relaxed attitude to extramarital tupping tweaks their funny bone. The only thing that could make this worse would be Bérénice Bejo starring in a remake of Showgirls.”
06/07/2012
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The Daily Mail
Chris Tookey
“French rock music is legendary for its awfulness, and now I’m afraid the same can be said for the country’s attempts to make Judd Apatow-style sex comedy.”
06/07/2012
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