a perfect plan (un plan parfait) 2012 (diane kruger, dany boon) region free dvd5 french bcbc

A Perfect Plan (French: Un plan parfait) is a 2012 French action adventure comedy film directed by Pascal Chaumeil and starring Diane Kruger, Dany Boon, and Alice Pol. Written by Laurent Zeitoun and Yoann Gromb, and based on a story by Philippe Mechelen, the film is about a successful woman in love who tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the altar with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.

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Spoken Language: French (some English, Russian, Swahili, Danish)













Synopsis

Isabelle (Diane Kruger) is prepared to marry Pierre (Robert Plagnol), the man she has loved for the past ten years. First she has to overcome a curse that her female family members have been battling for years—that all their first marriages end in divorce. Isabelle comes up with the perfect plan. She will marry a stranger and get a quick divorce to avoid the curse and be happily married forever the second time. She flies to Copenhagen and finds the perfect pigeon in Jean Yves (Dany Boon), an editor for the “Guide du Routard”, but her plans are complicated when he believes that she is in love with him. When Isabelle's arranged marriage goes awry, she tracks down the pigeon in hopes she can somehow marry him and divorce him without too much trouble. When he travels to Kenya, she follows him in the hope that he will sign her divorce papers.



Cast

Diane Kruger as Isabelle

Dany Boon as Jean-Yves

Alice Pol as Corinne

Étienne Chicot as Edmond

Robert Plagnol as Pierre

Jonathan Cohen as Patrick

Bernadette Le Saché as Solange

Laure Calamy as Valérie

Malonn Lévana as Louise

Olivier Claverie as Maître Maillard

Jean-Yves Chilot as Ambassadeur de France

Muriel Solvay as Femme de l'amabassadeur

Amélie Denarié as Employée mairie

Emeline Bayart as Secrétaire cabinet dentaire

Jean-Paul Bezzina as Thomasdu guide Hachette



A Perfect Plan (French: Un plan parfait)

by Erica Enriquez

Published October 29th 2013

Titled Un Plan Parfait in French (which means "a perfect plan"), the story centres around Isabelle (Kruger), a relatively happy and comfortable woman whose lovely boyfriend has just proposed to her. But like all Hollywood rom-coms (based in Paris), this is just the beginning of the story. Because Isabelle is facing her family curse which she must break in order to be married. The curse? Every first marriage in her family has ended in divorce. Isabelle's plan? Marry a total stranger, divorce him straight away and then move on to the real happily ever after with her actual fiancé. Enter Jean-Yves (Boon), the loveable larrikin who should just be Isabelle's first husband, the one she can divorce and be done with. But despite herself, Isabelle might just be falling ever so slightly for her first husband after all ...



OK, it's pretty formulaic and if this were a Hollywood film, it would star Kate Hudson and someone nice-looking in the Jean-Yves character, and her parents would be played by Diane Keaton and Steve Martin and the story would be set in wherever it was that Father of the Bride was set. But something about everyone speaking in French (yet another reason to envy German-born Kruger. French-speaking and a favourite amongst fashion designers? Gimme a break!), and the storyline moving from Paris to Kenya to Moscow just had my attention the whole way through the movie.



There were some ho-hum scenes but not very many, and not enough to completely turn me off. There is a pretty funny scene with Jean-Yves in the dentist's chair that is reminiscent of the scene from Hitch when Will Smith develops food allergies, which had me chuckling for a bit, and the final scene at the end of the film really was pretty nice (Kruger dances - is there nothing this woman cannot do?). Don't expect the Dany Boon from Micmacs (which, along with Amelie, are two great French films to watch), and don't think you're getting the Diane Kruger from Inglourious Basterds. You are merely getting a romantic comedy that is pleasant enough to sit through with your friends, your date, or if you ever need the reminder that a life lived without passion is not much of a life at all (see, I took something from this movie).



And like all great romantic comedies, the feature song will stay with you long after the closing credits and blooper reel end (yep, there's a blooper reel here too). And like the great Australian romantic comedy Strictly Ballroom, this movie had Love is in the Air to drive the moral of the story home.



It's a rare thing for a contemporary film to get both the rom and the com firing on all cylinders. This is a case of the comedy working better than the romance. It's really just a silly bit of fluff, but incurable romantics will likely get a kick out of it.