I Love You All

8/5/2024

Now I think that, perhaps, "Alice" (Catherine Deneuve) was taking a chance when she hit on the idea of inviting the loves of her life to a dinner on New Year's Eve. What's clear from the outset is that this eclectic gathering is going to stimulate an whole load of emotions and memories - and that's where auteur Claude Berri proceeds to take us for the next ninety minutes or so. These four men could hardly be more different and though that might have looked good on the page it doesn't work quite so well on screen. Serge Gainsbourg's "Simon" is a singer, Gérard Depardieu a typically temperamental musician, Alain Souchon's "Claude" is maybe the most benign of the four before, finally, there's Jean-Louis Trintignant as the patient and more reserved "Lucien". The thrust of the story does rather