Chinese Puzzle
Chinese Puzzle
R
6.6
·

2013

·

117m

Chinese Puzzle

Summary

Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.

Director, Writer

Cédric Klapisch

Reviews

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tanty

January 22, 2016

8

This third part of the series started with "The Spanish Apartment" and "Russian Dolls" continues following the life of Xavier and his complications. The cast is the well known and very good from previous parts with the good additions of the children, which perform really well.

This part, although shows again the chaotic life of Xavier, feels, somehow more coherent and luminous, as if the pieces would be finally fitting. Maybe the best way of summarizing the series and the conclusion is with the conversation that Xavier and Martine have by the end of the film in which Martine tell Xavier how she cannot get how Xavier feels his life to be that complicated. For her, it is just life as it is.

Anyway, a movie to pass a good time, with the spicy addition of the mixed languages and (western) cultures which have always made this series something special, although it is clearly addressed to the 70's - early 80's born western generation with a comfortable economic position.

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

French

Budget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$16,968,297.00

Keywords

friendship
chinatown
immigration
family
usa politics
sham marriage
frenchman abroad