The central premise seems interesting enough: a nine-year-old Parisian boy is packed off to the provinces for the final weeks of his mother's pregnancy, there to stay with a couple of combative family friends who themselves lost their only child at birth, and who, at war about everything else, vie for the loyalty of their little guest as well: the wife drags him to church on Sunday, the husband takes him fishing along Corot canals the next. The interest of this, however, lies mainly with the grownups -- who will be left wiser but not sadder by the experience -- while the movie prefers to go gallivanting off with the child. For him, the educational curriculum, dictated not so much by either adult as by the precocious neighbor girl who knows all the best lookouts in town, is pretty standard (monthlies and babies and "What's the clap?" etc.), and it's pretty old-hat for everyone else -- particularly anyone who's been frequenting the French cinema. With Anémone, Richard Bohringer, and Antoine Hubert; directed by Jean-Loup Hubert. (1987) — Duncan Shepherd
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