Love to lose: a joyful chaotic and poetic comedy (critic)

In Brussels, a young woman short and bumps. If everything seems to escape him, life takes care of giving it everything to the hundredfold. A treat

First distinctive signs that do not deceive, the Guit brothers (son of Graham director rather 90’s) are called Harpo and Lenny. One in tribute to the legendary Marx Brothers and the other to the black sun of the American stand-up, Lenny Bruce immortalized by Dustin Hoffman in the masterpiece of Bob Fosse. At least imagine it. With such a strap package the responsibility is enormous. Like to lose said their second feature film after Son of Plouc, As a way of taking their responsibility, going to chaos rather than towards the own. If life is by nature dissonant and messy, cinema tends to want to arrange everything (” No traffic jams in the movies… “Said Truffaut) and now Armande Pigeon arrives (the brilliant Maria Cavalier Bazan) and her ability to always sink a little more in a loose playing her life on strokes. The loose has this poetics to look at that she is counterfeiting from standards and that she does not necessarily be considered as such. Armande loses what she wins, takes doors and winds, but meets a bunch of people including Catherine Ringer and Melvil Poupaud (formerly Muse of Papa Guit) everything is configured in terms of storms of a scenario which also seems to be constantly playing in battery or face. To love to tinker rather than freeze things, the premises of love – there is ultimately only about that here – remaining a balancingist game. So this is an organic and romantic matter which holds beautifully over the length. Long live Harpo and Lenny!

From Harpo and Lenny Guit. With Maria Cavalier Bazan, Melvil Poupaud, Catherine Ringer… Duration 1h26. Released March 26, 2025