I saw this movie with my parents at the New York-Avignon Film Festival a couple weeks ago. I really loved it when I saw it, but now that I've had time to think it over, I decided it definitely belongs in my all-time TOP TEN list! Seriously, whenever my thoughts drift back to "Merci Docteur Rey", I giggle out loud! And same goes for my parents! That's what's so weird! At first while we were watching it, I couldn't tell whether they liked it or even if they were going to yank me out of the theater (since it starts with a murder)! But when Jane Birkin's character (Penelope) comes onto the scene, after maybe 15 minutes, they were laughing so loud I was embarrassed. It's so funny and everything the director Andrew Litvack had to say about it during the question and answer period made me like it even more. Same goes for Jane Birkin, who was there too. And when she said she didn't realize how crazy Andrew Litvack was until she read the script for "Merci Docteur Rey", the audience burst out laughing, because the story really is crazy, crazy, crazy! And it really is as French as it is American (take it from me because so am I!!!) and that's really cool. The actors are all great (especially Jane Birkin and Dianne Wiest - funnier than in "Bullets over Broadway"!!!) and the story is like a roller coaster ride that lasts an hour and a half. I would recommend this movie to anyone in the mood for a zany comedy that's "off the beaten tracks" (so if you're expecting "Legally Blonde", definitely don't go!)
Review of Merci Docteur Rey
