It’s funny and sweet but I couldn’t help feeling the film-makers missed a trick.

Although there’s nothing here that pushes the boat out formally, this is cheat-meal cinema at its most salty and delectable, with some aimiable high-energy turns from Garrel and Cottin.

The film piles up potentially thorny issues—anti-Semitism, class differences, unemployment, marital tensions—but approaches them with an overly superficial tone. [Full review in Spanish]

Nakache and Toledano may occasionally succumb to some sentimental excesses and a certain understated nostalgia in their ode to the eighties ...but Just an Illusion is full of remarkable scenes...[Full review in Spanish]