Together for 25 years, fifty-somethings host a young, open-minded couple for dinner.
On the 27the Alpe d’Huez International Comedy Film Festival, And maybe moreby Olivier Ducray and Wilfried Méance, won the Audience Award and the Special Jury Prize. Headlining this remake, more naughty and deeper, of Sentimentalby Spanish filmmaker Cesc Gay (the melodrama Truman), Isabelle Carré and Bernard Campan won the awards for best female and male performance.
It is also the prospect of reconnecting with the unforgettable couple of Remember beautiful things (2002), a magnificent drama by Zabou Breitman, who first seduces in this comedy that refreshes boulevard theatre with panache. Of course, Carré and Campan reprised on screen the roles they had created in the theatre in The tasting (2021), by Ivan Calbérac, but the result was only half-satisfactory. In And maybe morewhere the lines hit the mark, their complicity bursts off the screen. What’s more, with Julia Faure and Pablo Pauly, they form a formidable quartet playing in tune.
Hoping to have a quiet evening, Xavier (Campan), a music teacher and failed musician, learns that Sophie (Carré), a real estate agent who runs her own agency and has been sharing his life with him for 25 years, has invited their neighbors over for dinner. In a relationship for two years, Adèle (Faure), an animal psychologist in her forties, and Alban (Pauly), an airline pilot in his thirties, have the particularity of making a lot of noise during their lovemaking and of practicing swinging.
While the leg of lamb threatens to burn and the old dog Alto snores in his corner, a cockfight begins between the grumpy Xavier and the impetuous Alban. With the help of wine, Sophie reveals more than she should about her relationship and Adèle plays the sexologist. The more the veneer cracks, the more the atmosphere heats up. The night will be long…
Two years after the comedy Twins but not too much (2022), where a white thirty-something discovers that he has a black twin brother, the Ducray-Méance tandem can boast of having signed the missing link between Carnage (2011), by Roman Polanski, based on the play by Yasmina Reza, and First name (2012), by Alexandre De La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte, based on their play of the same title.
A thrilling huis clos filmed with two hand-held cameras, allowing for fluid sequence shots where the actors are tracked in their movements and retreats, And maybe more turns out to be a surprising X-ray of two couples who are more complex than they seem and perhaps less different from each other than they pretend. While Olivier Ducray and Wilfried Méance lead their characters towards a bittersweet finale, a few notes of hope are gently heard.
Indoors
Comedy
And maybe more
Olivier Ducray and Wilfried Méance
With Isabelle Carré, Bernard Campan, Julia Faure, Pablo Pauly
1 h 17