Due to a shortage of time I thought I'd add some notes for films that only require a short comment, this is the first of a few French quickies.

Pourquoi pas moi? (1999) 

Directed by Stphane Giusti

Starring Amira Casar, Julie Gayet, Johnny Hallyday

A light flighty French farce concering sexual mores. 

Set in Barcelona a group of French gay friends, three girls and a guy decide to invite all their parents for a meal so they can jointly out themselves. What they cannot know is the can of worms they will be opening once they have told them.

Along with the genuinely gay characters, one of their work compatriots turns up with her parents and tells them she is a lesbian for a cheap shock laugh, surprisingly (to her) they accept the fact wholeheartedly. Unfortunately her joke backfires when her mother admits to having had a lesbian relationship when she was younger. Her partner in that relationship happens to be the mother of one of the other characters (farce thrives on this type of coincidence), a fact that doesnt exactly please her husband who was quite happy accepting that his straight daughter might be gay, but his wife!

The reaction of each of the parents varies to the news and provides for some lightweight confrontations between them as well as causing a little aggrevation between the gay friends. But by the next day feelings and thoughts are clarified and most if not all the parents have reached some form of acceptance, the film rounds off with a fantasy type sequence with the parents, friends and lovers all united and happy.

The young cast are all attractive and the film rolls along very nicely, Pourquoi pas moi? wont challenge attitudes or offend anyone but it is a nice, entertaining and amusing farce with a fine cast and a fairly decent soundtrack.

Not essential cinema but it will almost certainly leave you smiling.

Cheers Trev.

BBFC rated 15