Heartbreaker (2010 film)

Heartbreaker ( Original title: L' arnacoeur ) is a French comedy film directed by Pascal Chaumeil from 2010 with Vanessa Paradis and Romain Duris in the lead roles.

Action

Alex Lippi is a qualified professional job lovers. Together with his sister Mélanie and his brother Marc, he runs a three-person company that has specialized in unhappy relationships to open women 's eyes, and to divide from their partners. Their clients are mostly parents, siblings or friends, to whom the supposed dream man has long been a thorn in the side. Alex not only uses all his charm and all his powers of seduction. In order to know the everyday life of its target objects and their preferences and weaknesses very well, also failed espionage techniques are used.

When the flower wholesaler Van Der Beck he placed the order, his daughter Juliette - who wants to marry the Englishman Jonathan shortly - keep them from Wedding, Alex rejecting the mission initially categorically. One of the principles of his company is namely that happy couples are not divided. However, since Alex is deeply in debt and is already being persecuted by the Serbian racket of a Shylock, he finally accepts the lucrative offer. However, the job turns out to be more difficult than expected, because the wedding is already in ten days.

Alex is Juliette's bodyguard in Monaco to be close to her and get to know them better. After initial distrust Alex can win their favor and they impressed with Dirty Dancing, Roquefort and George Michael - all the things she loves. Thus feelings between the two, however, are disturbed by her friend Sophie and the early release of Jonathan develop. Alex may just prevent a marriage of the two in Las Vegas and Juliette offers a nice night before the wedding. On the morning of the wedding, she rushes to Alex and wants to cancel the wedding, but rejects it.

On the way to the wedding, Alex, his helpers and Juliette meet together with father in the elevator of the hotel, this fall Marc photos and information down by Juliette recognizes that Alex was commissioned by her father. At the airport Mélanie Alex reads the riot act to which he opts for the love of Juliette and leaves the airport towards the wedding.

When you walk down the aisle explains Juliette's father that he likes Jonathan, they will get bored with it though and a car with a key is inserted is ready. After she has learned that Alex has accepted no money, she runs away. Since the path is blocked for the car, they will continue to walk and encounters Alex, who runs his hand to walk from the airport to Juliette. The two kiss, and Alex tells her that he does not like the things she loves. At the end of the film turns out that the loan shark working for Juliette's father.

Production and publication

On 23 January 2010, the film at L' Huez Film Festival was first performed in France. The movie premiere in France, Belgium and Switzerland, began on 17 March 2010. In Germany the film 6 January 2011, distributed by Universum Film GmbH and SquareOne Entertainment has been released.

Reviews

Cinema said that Pascal Chaumeil was " a success thanks to the wonderful launched performer, a comedy ," " has the makings of a cult film ." " The fast-paced dialogue and comic situations remember not to screwball comedies of about how the night before the wedding or That Touch of Mink ," it says in the film magazine further. The film was " [e ] rfrischend and seductive " and a " delicious romance". Prism, however, ruled: " And again, a film that hardly misses a cliché. In the style of American romantic comedies here Besson - pupil Pascal Chaumeil pulls all known register an hyped farce and bored, unfortunately more than he has. Vanessa Paradis should choose a better vehicle for her comeback. " Critic.de wrote that the film " may be borne by the charm of Romain Duris ' stylistically closer to Hollywood than other French romantic comedy ".

Awards

Leading actor Romain Duris has been nominated for the 2010 Satellite Award. In the Cesar Awards in 2011 was followed by five nominations in the categories of Best Film, Best Actor (Romain Duris ), Best Supporting Actress (Julie Ferrier ), Best Supporting Actor (François Damiens ) and best first film. However, the film could not hold its own against the competition itself.

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