After spending 4 hours getting a virus out of my laptop and spending an hour fixing the freezer,I felt like staying away from anything complex,and watching an easy-going flick! Taking a look at Netflix UK,I spotted what appeared to be a charming French Romantic Comedy,which led to me getting ready to find out how anonymous the romantics could be.The plot:Suffering from social anxiety, Angélique Delange finds herself unable to show her chocolate making skills with confidence.Also suffering with social anxiety,sweet shop owner M. Mercier tells Delange that he will sell her chocolate,and make up a tale about who the chef is,so that she can pretend to just be a sales rep. Accepting the offer, Delange and Mercier are thrilled to hear from customers over the next 7 years that this is the best chocolate they have ever had.Taking the latest batch to the shop,Delange is shocked to discover that Mercier has suddenly died.After mourning the loss of Mercier, Delange decides to follow Mercier's praise of her chocolate,and get a job at The Chocolate Mill.Finding Mill owner Jean-René Van Den Hugde to have a burning passion for chocolate,Delange is horrified to find that the business is about to go bankrupt,which leads to Delange deciding to do everything she can to stop The Chocolate Mill turning into a chocolate teapot.View on the film: Diving into the chocolate,co-writer/(along with Philippe Blasband) director Jean-Pierre Améris & cinematographer Gérard Simon make the movie look like a diamond-crusted box of chocolates,as rustic greens and ruby reds painted with glossy chocolate.For the screenplay,the writers give the film an enchanting fairy tale atmosphere,with the message about facing your fears being poured with a delicate touch.Keeping away from hard boiling the romance,the writers stir the romance between Hugde & Delange into a light mix,by giving each of them terrifically awkward quarks,which leads to very funny bumbling set-pieces,as Hugde and Delange try to taste a velvety finish.Chaging in and out of his shirts, Benoît Poelvoorde gives a great performance as Hugde,thanks to Poelvoorde swaying Hugde's bag of nerves to the adorable,rather than the annoying side of things.Kicking her heels in happiness,the cute Isabelle Carré gives a joyful performance as Delange,whose kooky edges Carré turns into a wonderful match to Hugde's anxiety,as Delange and Hugde put the romantic anonymous inside a box of chocolates.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Ameris in 2010, this is a French romantic comedy starring Benoît Poelvoorde and Isabelle Carré as the star-crossed lovers.Actually, they're neurotic. The gist of the movie is that they're both so neurotic, neither can find a relationship of any kind. The movie follows Angélique Delange (played by Carré) in her search for a job that doesn't make her faint, and she meets Jean- René Van Den Hugde ( Poelvoorde) who hires her as a sales rep for his chocolate factory.The movie is laugh-out-loud funny almost all the way through its girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl gets boy plot. Their neuroses are played for laughs, of course, and each has enough foibles to keep you, if not in stitches, then at least in laughter. The movie has no depth, no lesson, but it has the light touch needed to keep things moving. If you want a very funny movie to while away an hour and a half or so, "Romantics Anonymous" is your ticket.

Quite cute romantic comedy that manages to overcome being predicable in the broad sense with lovely performances, and a quirky sensibility that allows for smaller surprises within the established rom-com format. Benoit Poelvorode (in a 180 degree turn from his famous, chilling performance in "Man Bites Dog") and Isabelle Carre are both, in different ways, suffering from terrible shyness and fear of emotions and attention. Yet, when she comes to work at his chocolate company personality and fate keep conspiring to force them together, in spite of their fears. This has a few laugh out loud moments, and lots of smile inducing ones. In the end, it doesn't add up to more than what it is; a good hearted romantic comedy done with expertise, but in a world full of painful and dead rom-coms, this is s very nice surprise.

If you like to come out of the theatre smiling and nodding to your fellow audience in a manner that says "that was a lovely bit of nonsense and all's well with the world" then Romantics Anonymous is the perfect antidote to the Hollywood flash, CGT and emptiness.We all know what the outcome will be more or less from the start but the journey is the thing and for the gentlemen among us there is the beauty of Isabelle Carre to enjoy on the journey. Looking at the other reviews I haven't seen any reference to the director's tip of the hat to Julie Andrews and The Sound of Music in the scene where Angelique dances down the shopping arcade with her samples suitcase.A little gem. Go and see it. You won't be disappointed.