The Very Merry Widows
The Very Merry Widows
| 09 July 2003 (USA)
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Renée is Laurence's grandmother and she intends to show her how to make rich men fall in love with her, in order to get their life insurance's money. Both women will meet several men in the course of the movie. Even the cynical Renée will fall deeply in love again. But even after getting married, Laurence and Renée don't seem to be able to love their husband for a long time. Will they manage to get rid of their rich, loving but irritating husbands? Will their husbands survive the experience? Or will true love triumph at the end?

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Jane Birkin is the black widow who marries rich old men and then murders them for their money (this is not a spoiler, as we see it happening in the opening scene!), and Émilie Dequenne is her granddaughter (by one of the unlucky stiffs) who comes to live with her and is "tutored" in the ways of seduction (and murder). It's an one-joke concept that might have worked with a genuine MILF in the main role, but Jane Birkin looks her age (57 at the time), and is rather alarmingly thin, to boot. This black comedy has little bite and few laughs; it would probably have been dated even 30 years earlier. But if you sit through its first 87 (!) minutes, you'll get to see a topless (and perfectly proportioned) Émilie Dequenne in bed - call it a consolation prize! *1/2 out of 4.

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