Two Is A Family
This is a film for feelers, not thinkers. It is bright, funny, well-paced with two very likeable characters in the lead roles but with a plot that is highly improbable and indifferent to common sense logic.
Omar Sy plays Samuel, a charismatic worker at a French seaside resort. One morning, a women arrives in a taxi and hands Sam a baby girl. The woman, Kristen (Clemence Poesy) claims the child is the result of a holiday tryst she’d had with Sam, then promptly leaves in the taxi, not to be heard from again until eight years later.
Sam flies to London in an unsuccessful attempt to return the child, meets French producer, Bernie (Antoine Bertrand) who gives Sam a home and a job as a stuntman and helps raise baby Gloria.
Leap forward eight years and Gloria (Gloria Colston) is a rambunctious child. She and Sam have developed a unique bond demonstrated with choreographed dance moves, rehearsed games and a ridiculously cool apartment. Then Kristen, after relentless insistence from Sam, shows up again and things go awry.
It’s contrived and heavy handed on the heart-string pulling, but it kind of winks as if it knows that and just wants you to go along for the ride and enjoy.
★★ ½
Reviewed by Rita Bratovich
