This is an attractive French mix of a romantic comedy and a mild, warm satire of French politics. She is Baya (the very beautiful Sara Forestier), a free spirited, very attractive girl in her early twenties. Her mother is a leftist hippie, her father is an Algerian immigrant. She has followed the politics of her mother, and she tries to get into bed with right wingers, in order to convert them to a progressive outlook. He is Arthur (Jacques Gamblin) a shy, mild mannered, middle aged minor public bureaucrat. He denies being a right winger (since he voted for the moderate socialist candidate Lionel Jospin, who by the way has a cameo appearance in the movie) but he comes from a very staid family. His father is a respected engineer in the politically incorrect field of nuclear energy, his mother is the daughter of a survivor in Auschwitz (when Baya learns of his family background, she is excited at the possibility of becoming an Arab-Jewish couple, but he plays down his Jewish connections). Very entertaining, and at its best when it mocks the more emotional strands of western leftism.

I decided to give this film a try based on the reviews that considered it to be an excellent film, and I'm really glad I did. I wasn't expecting much from this film, as I'm not really fond of romantic comedies; most of them nowadays are terrible and full of cheesy, clichéd and nonsensical stuff. This film, however, was a blow of fresh air to me, it completely blew my mind with its originality.The photography and the camera-work are really amazing; they help to contemplate things much better, and the plot is not the clichéd romantic plot you would expect (maybe in some parts it is, but for the most part is really innovative, at least in my opinion). I for one liked the short scene and sequence where the main characters of the story are sitting on a bench and then the camera moves onto a nearer bench where they appear again, but this time as kids. Then the camera goes back to the other bench where they are grown up again, and then one more time moves onto the bench that represents them as kids. That was really an amazing sequence, showing their actual selves on one side and their past selves on the other.As to the acting, they are very well executed. The revelation here would be actress Sara Forestier; what a great actress and beautiful woman she is, she delivers a really convincing acting. Maybe that was a little bit biased on account of her nudity in this film, but she still is a great actress nevertheless. I would actually compare this kind of filmmaking with that of Amelie's. They are very different movies, though, but it is the closest style of filmmaking I can compare it with.Finally, It is appropriate to say that this film is not for everyone; it is a really different kind of filmmaking. Although if you're looking for something fresh, you should give this a try, you won't be disappointed.My Score: 9.1/10

I think this part of the official IMDb page sums everything up:Trivia While writing the script, Michel Leclerc and Baya Kasmi didn't have a full story, but rather sixty pages of situations stemming from the idea of a girl who sleeps with her political opponents.It shows. The movie makes you laugh sometimes but we have seen the Manic Pixie Dream Girl so many times that it isn't charming anymore. It's a step away from being annoying.The worst part of the movie is how everything solves rather quickly and there are so many loose ends. You will have a good time but it is not at all the masterpiece some commenters here argue it is.

I saw this movie literally to get out of the intense heat a couple of nights ago not expecting or even knowing that much about it and that's prob the best way to approach it. Its a very nice and deceptively light french film about the ridiculousness of people's beliefs and the ridiculousness that other people will go to to change these beliefs. Film wants to and very much succeeds in wanting to merge people's personal beliefs with their political ones but in a way that is both light and sweet and funny without being either too maudlin and sad or too lightweight.Film features a radical liberal who knowing that talk will never get anyone to change their minds prefers to let her body do the talking for her. (she engages in intercourse to get other people to change their minds--just how she does it is explained in the film although its a fair question as to whether or not it would actually work in real life or not.)One day she hears this uptight doctor on the phone and decides to seduce him--not knowing that he brings his own rather heavy baggage with him in the form of family history, parental beliefs informing his own beliefs and just about everything you can imagine really. She in turn brings her own baggage (fam history, parental beliefs, and also current relationship with parents)but she never doubts her own abilities to change anyone's minds for a second.Needless to say they fall for one another and an attachment gets made and now the 2 of them have to overcome a lot to make it work if they're gonna make it work at all. This is not a spoiler to say that this is what happens--because the bulk of the movie is the 2 leads trying to get their stuff in tune with one another so that they can continue to more or less lead the lives they were living just with each other instead of without.Its not an easy tone to pull off given the balance that is needed to offset real world beliefs with the warmth and heart needed to make a successful romantic comedy but this one managed to do it more so then any recent film i can recall seeing which is damn impressive. Its actually quite Woody Allenish in some way which is even more impressive as most who try to copy Allen can't quite get the heart part right. Much like some of Woody Allen's films this film even brings in some really heavy duty topics with an amazingly light touch. Things like the holocaust, the war of Algerian independence, and modern day conservatism vs modern day liberalism all manage to get touched upon and discussed but never in a way that's heavy handed or brings the movie to a halt. Film always amazingly manages to maintain a lightness of touch and this is in no small part because of the very zesty and very lively performance of Sara Forstier in the lead role. She is like Sophia Loren in some of her more lively performances one who clearly loves life and one who doesn't really care or need other people to tell her how she should live it and its one that should her career take off--it'll be this role that people look back on 10, 20 years from now and say Viva La France!