Don't tell him!

(B2) Do a search on Solange Cicurel, director of the film "Faut pas lui dire", and you will find nothing or barely. A lawyer at the Brussels bar, Solange Cicurel became a filmmaker late in life. "Faut pas lui dire" is indeed his first film, first feature film and... a first hit. A strong pen guided by the simple and beautiful idea that it is possible and desirable to “lie for love”.

The author tells the story of four cousins ​​on the verge of forty, all thirsty for love. What could be truer than lying to a man so that he comes back to you and thus relive the love of the first days. It is therefore by practicing lies that our four heroines find or rediscover the love of their lives.

Despite a somewhat hectic start to the film, the author having to present four stories in parallel (choral film), the comedy finds its rhythm over the course of the plot to achieve its objective: we laugh there, we cry there, we sympathize. The director relies on a solid cast of actors including the surprising Jenifer Bartoli. Better known for her talents as a singer than as an actress, she bursts the screen with accuracy and beauty just like Camille Chamoux (revealed in another female choral film, Gazelles). The other actors and actresses, the Belgians Tania Garbarski, Stéphanie Crayencour, Laurent Capelluto, Fabrizio Rongione, and Charlie Dupont are doing very well, as well as the inexhaustible Brigitte Fossey, matriarch and liar at will, or even Arié Elmaleh sparkling in the role of the curious and clever secretary.

A good "feel good movie" to see as a couple or as a group and to be recommended for the after-parties. Released on January 4 in Brussels (producer: Between dog and wolf).

(Eric Dagostino)