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title: "Not on the Lips (2003)"
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# Not on the Lips (2003)

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Alain Renais (Last Year at Marienbad) delightful new period musical comedy is based on a 1925 Parisian Operetta and stars Audrey Tautou (A Very Long Engagement), Isabelle Nanty (Amelie) and Lambert Wilson (The Matrix sequels).












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A frothy 1925 operetta, performed by a glittering cast that includes Sabine Azema and Audrey Tautou, might not sound precisely like the great director Alain Resnais's glass of champagne. But Not on the Lips (Pas sur la bouche) is in a line of Resnais films that uses false sets and stylized acting for its effect. This musical farce follows a wife (Azema) trying to keep her husband (Pierre Arditi) from learning that she was actually married once before--to an American who is about to become hubby's business partner. Awkward. Audrey Tautou, in a distinctly supporting role, navigates the trickery of flirtation as she tries to attract lounge lizard-y Jalil Lespert. Azema and Arditi are smooth as glass, but the standout here is Lambert Wilson (the French dude of the Matrix saga) as the tall, cigar-smoking American businessman, who disdains the un-hygenic dangers of kissing on the lips. Wilson's delivery of English phrases and his American-accented French is spot-on--you can hear the joke even if you don't speak French. The lightness of touch is maintained throughout, however gently the director of Last Year at Marienbad may be prodding at the undercurrents of Franco-American hostility (which probably seemed more loaded in 2004 than in 1925) and marital anxiety. --Robert Horton

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    clever, funny, great fun - even for a guy who thought he'd never enjoy a musical
  

*by W***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2019*

I got this film because I adore Audrey Tautou (Amelie, Priceless, Coco before Chanel, A Very Long Engagement) and would gladly watch two hours of her being filmed peeling potatoes or reading names from an old Paris phonebook.The truth is though this thing is great fun. I've watched it several times now and it still delights. It is filmed like a stage play. The music is witty and the cast is superb. It is a broad farce much like an English drawing-room comedy, but of course being French it's a bedroom comedy too. As one would expect, it's about romance, love and marriage. The moral seems to be that petty deceits and indiscretions are an inevitable part of life and as long as you love well and your friends are discreet, everything turns out well in the end. It helps to have enough French to follow the lyrics and dialogue, but the subtitles are quite good. If you are a romantic I think you'll enjoy this fluffy confection.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Fantasic musical comedy, so fun!
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2018*

This is a delicious bit of froth, probably my favorite musical comedy. Alain Resnais shot this so out of left field from his usual greats that British critics had a hard time forgiving him for doing the unexpected, creating a classic French comedy. The setting is the 1920's, the music is beautiful, the actors were impecably selected. And Alain Resnais! What more need be said.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Do u like/love opera?
  

*by P***. on Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2019*

Usually like French movies,but truly thought the online write-up said," based on a French operatic farce.It i-s  an opera--- eek! All dialogue sung! There r more than a few funny moments,building as it goes on---- and in-- and on.The English subtitles fly by @ pretty much breakneck speed( had 3-4 cups coffee,to keep up??Really have to be in a mood for this.

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