LHomme de Ma Vie (1992) 

Directed by Jean Charles Tacchella

Starring Maria de Medeiros, Thierry Fortineau

Oddball romantic comedies are a dime a dozen, they peaked many years ago with films from directors such as Howard Hawks and a film would need to be extraordinarily good to compare with these classic blasts from the past.

LHomme de Ma Vie is an attempt at this type of film, a pretty weak attempt at that, within ten minutes youll have the whole plot sussed so you may as well sit back and see if there is even the tiniest spark of originality within this tale.

Cute gold digger Aimee meets misanthropic book store owner Maurice, they connect but are both looking for something else, after trying a few different fits they end up guess where? Yep back with each other, now theres a surprise..: 

Even though the plot is hackneyed, maybe the humour or travails along the way will make this a film worth seeing. Not a hope, the humour is laboured, the journey absolutely uninspiring, in short there is very little reason to make any effort to see this at all.

Now, even if the film was a cracker there is another huge negative that you cannot get away from, the soundtrack.. this is a 90s film but the music sounds as though it came from any of the shabby British comedies from the 60s and 70s, excruciatingly awful. Strangely though its not just the music that feels dated, almost everything about the film screams 1970s. 

So is there anything even remotely watchable about LHomme de Ma Vie? Well, I must admit that seeing the gorgeous Maria de Medeiros, particularly in her red dress made sitting through this travesty just about bearable. Most will remember her for her small role in Pulp Fiction but Ill always remember her playing the French author of erotic tales, Anais Nin in Henry & June (1990), all I can add is, if it wasnt for her presence, I dont think Id have sat through more than 10 minutes of this effort.

Cheers Trev

BBFC rated 12

R2 dvd released by Bluebell Films.

To think, so many great films remain in limbo unlikely to ever be released on dvd while weak efforts like this are foisted on us, the consumers.