Waiting for Bojangles
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRégis Roinsard
Written byRomain Compingt
Régis Roinsard
Based onWaiting for Bojangles
by Olivier Bourdeaut
Produced byOlivier Delbosc
Jean-Pierre Guérin
Starring
CinematographyGuillaume Schiffman
Edited byLoïc Lallemand
Music byClare Manchon
Olivier Manchon
Production
companies
Curiosa Films
JPG Films
Distributed byStudioCanal
Release dates
13 October 2021 (La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival)
5 January 2022 (France)
Running time
124 minutes
CountriesFrance
Belgium
LanguageFrench
Budget$13.4 million [1]
Box office$4.5 million [2]

Waiting for Bojangles (French: En attendant Bojangles) is a 2021 French-Belgian romantic drama film directed by Régis Roinsard, starring Romain Duris, Virginie Efira and Grégory Gadebois. It is an adaptation of Olivier Bourdeaut's novel of the same name.

Cast

  • Romain Duris as Georges Fouquet
  • Virginie Efira as Camille Fouquet
  • Grégory Gadebois as Charles, dit l'Ordure
  • Solàn Machado-Graner as Gary Fouquet
  • Fabienne Chaudat as Marie-Françoise
  • Éliza Maillot as Francine
  • François Raffenaud as a cocktail party guest
  • Aurélia Petit as a teacher
  • Christian Ameri as a florist
  • Jean-Pierre Durand as a fire chief
  • Irène Ismaïloff

Reception

Bobby LePire of Film Threat gave the film a score of 10/10 and called it "mesmerizing from start to finish."[3]

Ray Gill of Willamette Week rated the film 4 stars out of 4 and called it an "uneasy thrill ride full of uncertainty, as any great love story should be."[4]

Calum Marsh of The New York Times wrote that the "vision of a life of immeasurable joy and passion — one lived solely for love, without limits or qualifications — is beautiful", and while the film is in "constant jeopardy of seeming maudlin or, worse, a little corny", it is an "admirable problem".[5]

Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com rated the film 2 stars out of 4 and wrote that despite "charismatic" and "committed" performances from Duris and Efira, the film spends "much" of its "overlong" running time depicting mental illness as an "adorable personality quirk, a source of good-time party vibes, even a glamorous quality", and that once the "frothy French romance evolves into a more serious drama" it "turns turgid, causing a jarring tonal shift."[6]

Josh Kupecki of The Austin Chronicle rated the film 2 stars out of 5 wrote that the while the film "looks marvelous, with Roinsard artfully weaving through throngs of partygoers placed in vibrant, lived-in spaces and exotic locales", and Efira "continues her run of outstanding performances", she is "ultimately ill-served by a character and a film that’s removed any gravitas it seeks to instill by paradoxically not being removed enough."[7]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=21458
  2. ↑ https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt11310608/?ref_=bo_se_r_1
  3. ↑ LePire, Bobby (31 August 2022). "Waiting for Bojangles". Film Threat. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  4. ↑ Gill, Ray (30 August 2022). "Waiting for Bojangles". Willamette Week. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  5. ↑ Marsh, Calum (1 September 2022). "'Waiting for Bojangles' Review: Endless Love". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  6. ↑ Lemire, Christy (2 September 2022). "Waiting for Bojangles". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  7. ↑ Kupecki, Josh (2 September 2022). "Waiting for Bojangles". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
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