“Place Publique” by Agnes Jaoui (2018)

Rene Hirsch
MdW (movies directed by women)
1 min readJan 23, 2020

(excellent) Movies directed by women

The films of Agnès Jaoui (4/4)

Good script (8)
Excellent dialogues, humor, images, music (9)
Top personages, direction (10)

Agnes Jaoui’s most accomplished film with a host of strong and entertaining characters defined by pungent dialogues and brought together by a scenario structured around the three unities of the classical tragedy (action, place, time)
Smart (diegetic) use of music

Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,0
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,2
IMDB 5,9
Average critics 6,0
Average public 6,1

Cast: Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Léa Drucker
Director: Agnès Jaoui
Writers: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui
Music by Fernando Fiszbein
Cinematography by Yves Angelo
Film Editing by Annette Dutertre

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