Director Anthony Cordier’s The Happy Few was the French film I watched in the London Film Festival this year. Two newly acquainted middle class couples, one partnership played by Marina Fois and Roschdy Zem and the other by Nicolas Duvauchelle and Elodie Bouchez, decide to exchange partners after they acknowledge their attractions. The problems come from the lack of rules which inevitably take their dalliances away from simple fun to stirring jealousies. To be honest, it had to happen.
The memorable scene involves flour – it sticks in your mind because you wonder how they manage not to sneeze and consider how annoying it might be to remove. It’s a quiet understated film. However you wish it simmered and stormed a little more to give you something to hold onto. Maybe it’s a little too light – like sifted flour.
Cherrydial 
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