Barbecue (film) explained

Barbecue
Director:	Éric Lavaine
Producer:	François Cornuau Vincent Roget Olivier Courson
Cinematography:	François Hernandez
Editing:	Vincent Zuffranieri
Studio:	Same Player Canal+ TF1
Distributor:	StudioCanal
Runtime:	98 minutes
Country:	France
Language:	French
Budget:	$11.1 million ^[1]
Gross:	$14.5 million ^[2]

Barbecue is a 2014 French ensemble comedy film directed by Éric Lavaine.

Cast

• Lambert Wilson as Antoine Chevalier
• Franck Dubosc as Baptiste
• Florence Foresti as Olivia
• Guillaume de Tonquédec as Yves
• Lionel Abelanski as Laurent
• Jérôme Commandeur as Jean-Mich'
• Sophie Duez as Véronique Chevalier
• Lysiane Meis as Laure
• as Nathalie
• Lucas Lavaine as Guillaume
• Corentin Lavaine as Hugo
• Stéphane De Groodt as Alexandre
• Philippe Laudenbach as Jean Chevalier
• Julie Engelbrecht as The pretty blonde

Reception

Mike McCahill of The Guardian called Barbecue a "boringly white-bread with no cinematic ambition".^[3]

While attending Beijing International Film Festival, Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter had this to say about the film: "[A] half-baked comedy-drama about a group of bourgeois friends who have to confront the pitfalls of middle age".^[4]

Representing The New York Times, Nicolas Rapold called the film "[a] kind of utterly unremarkable local product", but added that "its loosely written story doubles as a smirk-inducing glimpse at what feel like very Gallic life challenges".^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Barbecue (2014)- JPBox-Office. Jobox-office.com. 23 January 2023.
2. Web site: Barbecue. 23 January 2023.
3. News: Barbecue review – boringly white-bread with no cinematic ambition. McCahill. Mike. The Guardian. 18 September 2014. 23 January 2023.
4. Web site: Barbecue: Beijing Review. Tsui. Clarence. The Hollywood Reporter. 21 April 2014. 23 January 2023.
5. News: Rapold. Nicolas. Married and on the Make, Even After a Heart Attack. The New York Times. 25 December 2014. 20.