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BENJAMIN BOULAY IN THE EASY WAY OUT/L'ART DE LA FUGUE

Brice Cauvin and his collaborators, including Agnès Jaoui, have taken Stephen (The Object of My Affection, ) McCauley's novel of American family disfunction and turned it into a more French ronde of alternately blasé and bothered brothers and their eccentric dysfunctional elders.

"The romantic travails of three brothers are dissected with heart and humor in Brice Cauvin’s charming feature. Antoine (Laurent Lafitte) is feeling the 10-year itch with his boyfriend Adar, sad-sack Gérard (Benjamin Biolay) is pining after his soon-to-be ex-wife and savvy businessman Louis (Nicolas Bedos) is getting cold feet over his engagement to his long-time girlfriend. These three men, all in different stages of falling in or out of love, are played by some of the finest actors in France today. The film’s source material is Stephen McCauley’s eponymous 1992 novel, but Cauvin and his cowriter transplant the scenario from Massachusetts to France, adding particularly Gallic foibles and eccentricities. With the delightful Agnès Jaoui as Antoine’s coworker and Gérard’s potential new love interest and the wonderful Guy Marchand and Marie-Christine Barrault as the boys’ parents, The Easy Way Out portrays familial dysfunction with effortless wit and humanity."

"Co-written by Cauvin and Raphaëlle Desplechin (with Jaoui acting as consultant), the script centres on Antoine (Lafitte): his job as a tour operator, his partner with whom he is planning to buy a house, his colleague and friend Ariel (Jaoui), his brothers the neurotic Gérard and engaged-to-be-married Louis, his father with a heart condition and his cantankerous mother… Everything is going well, but nothing is right: he doesn’t want the house, Gérard can’t get over his ex-wife, Louis is cheating on his wife-to-be… And Ariel sweeps through this little world like a hurricane. Adept at the "art of finding a way out", Antoine will have to make a decision."--Jaoui-Bacri blog

"Antoine n’en peut plus du spectacle de sa famille, engluée dans une débâcle permanente.
Son grand frère chômeur, Gérard abruti par un mariage en pleine déroute, se laisse manipuler par des parents querelleurs et fantasques, propriétaires d'une boutique de vêtements hors d’âge à Saint Denis…
Louis, son petit frère, sorti d'une école de commerce, est lui, incapable de résoudre l'équation entre le respect et l'amour... Abandonnant Julie la fiancée de toujours, aux bras de son père...
Antoine, lui-même, coinçé entre un travail absurde, le chantage affectif de ses parents et un amant (trop) parfait, n’échappe à la spirale familiale, qu’en tentant de résoudre les problèmes de ses frères.
Jusqu'au jour où Ariel, l'amie de toujours, s’immisce, corrigeant les équilibres instables de cette famille... Antoine élucubre alors des rêves, et tente ainsi de se soustraire à son propre naufrage… C'est tout l'art de la fugue..."--Synopsis on AlloCiné.

The Easy Way Out/L'Art de la fugue, debuted 10 October 2014 (Festival du Film de la Réunion); French theatrical release 4 March 2015. Screened as part of the San Francisco Film Society series French Cinema Now, showing at the Vogue Theater, San Francisco, November 9, 2014, 6:00 p.m.

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