Mr. Wilson's Antoine is too much of a pill to root for, and the voice-over and wispy songs dribbling over scenes only underline the forgettable filmmaking.

Lavaine's midlife-crisis dramedy piles on dreary subplots involving Antoine's grating pals and their one-dimensional romantic and/or financial problems, but his material is unfunny and superficial to the point of inertia.

It's all too easy to imagine an ITV primetime version starring one Glenister or another, and it wouldn't be any less skippable.

Breezy, harmless, mildly amusing and uplifting with a charismatic ensemble cast.