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Trailer: Emmanuel Mouret’s Fais-moi plaisir!

What I’m seeing in the trailer for Emmanuel Mouret’s Fais-moi plaisir! is pure Blake Edwards’ The Party. His last two films, Change of Address and Shall We Kiss?, were released to art-house U.S. audiences, and this hybrid of comedy of manners/comedy of errors might also be headed the same way.

Eric Lavallée

Published on June 25, 2009

What I’m seeing in the trailer for Emmanuel Mouret‘s Fais-moi plaisir! is pure Blake Edwards’ The Party. His last two films, Change of Address and Shall We Kiss?, were released to art-house U.S. audiences, and this hybrid of comedy of manners/comedy of errors might also be headed the same way. Working with Frédérique Bel for a third straight project (she is the blonde girlfriend pushing him to cheat), the pic also features Judith Godrèche and Déborah François, who recently starred in Unmade Beds.

Cineuropa.org translates the film’s title as Please, Please Me!, this centres on Ariane (Bel), who believes that her partner (Mouret) is fantasizing about another woman. Hoping to free him from his obsession, she asks him to have an affair with the woman in question (Godrèche), who turns out to be the daughter of the French President! There follow several twists and turns in which nobody manages to fulfil the promises of desire.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022, he was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Current top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson).