Cote d'Azur (Crustaces & Coquillages) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 8 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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A romper that doesn't shy away from sexual frankness or Mediterranean laissez faire.Read the full review
Unfortunately, the screenplay contains little real wit, with the result that the various plot machinations have a strained quality that tends to reduce the proceedings of their intended giddiness. On the other hand, the performers are attractive; there's plenty of nudity; the setting is scenic, and the musical numbers -- well, they're pretty bad.Read the full review
This is a sophisticated adult treat in the French manner with an attractive and gifted cast and is essentially serious, yet often whimsical and always compassionate.Read the full review
The performances are mediocre. The heart is big. The weather is swell.Read the full review
Has no truth, wisdom or honesty, and it's barely entertaining.Read the full review
In the end, all these sexual shenanigans just provide an excuse to play some seductive music and drink in some seaside scenery. Ah, Europe.Read the full review
Neither funny nor sexy, nor leavened by the wistful laissez-faire wisdom of the typical sophisticated Gallic comedy, it is less than a trifle.Read the full review
A broad, bawdy, silly French farce set on the Riviera in high season, it's a diversion at best and a strained souffle at worst, but it rings enough Gallic changes on the old family-summer-gone-horribly-wrong genre to deliver some unexpectedly sharp laughs.Read the full review
