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Let It Rain / Parlez-moi de la pluie Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Agnès Jaoui, Country: France, Release: 2008, Runtime: 110 The urbane social satirist Agnès Jaoui (The Taste of Others, NYFF 2000; Look At Me, Opening Night, NYFF 2004) is at the height of her powers, both as a filmmaker and as an actor, in this deftly structured comic study of self-delusion set in an unexpectedly rainy southern France. The director plays a self-regarding feminist novelist weighing a run at politics, who returns to her childhood summer home to sort out family business with her homebody sister. Jaoui’s inimitable creative partner Jean-Pierre Bacri is pitch-perfect as an equally self-absorbed filmmaker angling to make a documentary about powerful women. Often compared to Woody Allen, her perceptions about class, power and sexual politics are so sharp and her wit so light that perhaps it’s time to start thinking of this wonderful filmmaker as a modern-day French Jane Austen. Preceded by Unpredictable Behaviour: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson finally solve the mystery of Jack the Ripper through a discussion on rational thought and the human intellect. Ernst Weber and Pasha Shapiro, USA/Germany, 2007; 5m. Agnès Jaoui b. 1964, Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France 2004 Look at Me NYFF 2000 The Taste of Others NYFF

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