Jeanne’s ace card is Gardin, an increasingly visible comic fixture in French cinema.

It is deceptively slight, though leaning heavily on a certain kind of quirkiness, and undoubtedly intriguing.

Other directors might have taken this idea a number of ways, perhaps an Under The Tuscan Sun-style sex comedy... Being French, however, Celine Devaux gives this film a bit of a Gallic shrug, an enjoyable but slight little affair.

Jeanne has to learn she is not the starry genius admired by everyone, but a major flop.