
Agathe lives with her husband and son in a posh apartment in front of the Jardin du Luxembourg. Patrick lives with his son in the back of a van. She is the head of an important contemporary art foundation. He lives thanks to social security and odd jobs. She has graduated after studying for 7 years. He has spent almost 7 years behind bars. She has a good relationship with the Minister of Culture and Arts. He has a good relationship with alcoholic beverages of all kinds. She l... (Full plot summary below)
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Agathe lives with her husband and son in a posh apartment in front of the Jardin du Luxembourg. Patrick lives with his son in the back of a van. She is the head of an important contemporary art foundation. He lives thanks to social security and odd jobs. She has graduated after studying for 7 years. He has spent almost 7 years behind bars. She has a good relationship with the Minister of Culture and Arts. He has a good relationship with alcoholic beverages of all kinds. She loves intellectual discussions. He loves occasional sex with big-breasted women. They should have never met, but their sons are inseparable. They will see why in the end.
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| Boston PhoenixGerald PearyThe terrific leads dig into their clichéd roles and come up with characters to savor, and a relationship to root for. |
| New York PostKyle SmithNo one loves a broad comedy like the French, but Gallic touches of restraint tend to keep such light entertainment pleasing rather than blundering. |
| Slant MagazineDiego SemereneThe hilarity of the film creeps up slowly and from every angle, not through the facile immediacy of short-lived laughter. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisHuppert's character, who's a tornado of demands at work, is almost as obnoxious as Poel-voorde's. She just not as willfully disgusting. He chews up all the scenery with his thick Belgian accent and splaying limbs and general cartoonishness. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesIsabelle Huppert may be approaching self-parody as an icon of Gallic frigidity, yet the talented writer-director Anne Fontaine puts that to excellent use in this broad, obvious, but consistently funny bedroom farce. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe first half of My Worst Nightmare contains some of the best comedy and the biggest laughs of the season, and the second half ... eh. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenIts tepid satire of art world pretensions culminates with a visual dirty joke that is mildly amusing but still not worth the wait. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair...a terminally uneven piece of work that will leave most viewers flummoxed and frustrated. |
| Village VoiceChris PackhamWhether this is an argument for or against marriage probably depends on the viewer's own experience. |
| User ReviewMatty SI had more fun with this film than most romanic comedies since Carey Grant and Katherine Hepburn teamed up, but being French, it is much more liberated and imaginative. |