August 8, 1999

Kennedy et moi (1999) **

Directed by Sam Karmann. With Jean-Pierre Bacri, Nicole Garcia, Patrick Chesnais. After “American Beauty” and “Wonder Boys”, here’s another movie about a family man facing a mid-life crisis and making an ass of himself. Someday, a brilliant scientist will win a Nobel Prize in physics for discovering the strange telepatic waves that allow screenwriters in remote corners of the world to simultaneously come up with exactly the same characters and narrative ideas.