99f

The top-ranked film in France last week was 99 francs, based on a bestseller about an advertising executive who confronts
the insignifi cance of his life and decides to end it all. Of course, life gets in the way of his conviction, or otherwise it would be very short film. While not precisely drama or comedy, this kinetically paced, visually eye-oping odyssey might be likend to Network, a social satire grounded in a heightened reality and dripping with black comic observation.
– LEONARD KLADY, SCREEN DAILY

Jan Kounen – – injects a massive dose of pleasingly hallucinatory visuals into this screen adaptation of Gallic media gadfly Frederic Beigbeder´s zeitgeist-nailing novel. Pic features yet another zesty, near-irresistible perf by Jean Dujardin (Brice de Nice, OSS 117) as smartass creative type Octave, whose professional success holds the germ of personal failure.
– LISA NESSELSON, VARIETY