Director Claude Lelouch, best known for his 1966 film A Man and a Woman (which won both the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and the Cannes Palme de Or) is still going strong at 78, and continues to be versatile in all genres, from comedies to dramas, love stories to thrillers. Robert et Robert is an eccentric laugh fest that riffs a bit on The Odd Couple with two unlikely middle-aged friends (Charles Denner, Jacques Villeret) named Robert – one a boisterous cab driver, the other a shy wallflower – deciding they’ve had enough of the single life and applying at a dating agency, resulting in an escalating chain of ever more screwball misadventures.
“Like all Lelouch comedies, Robert et Robert is infinitely generous, both in spirit and to its characters” – Vincent Canby, The New York Times
Marc Edward Heuck discusses Robert et Robert on the New Beverly blog.
