One thing I like about films is that they don't always focus on the voice that shouts the loudest. Not in independent cinema anyway. As a fairly reserved person myself, I tend to be drawn to quiet, quirky, awkward or misunderstood characters (not that I am all those things – honest!) and Les émotifs anonymes is a typical example of the type of sweet and simple film – not always completely plausible, but heartwarming nevertheless – that I enjoy.
Set within a small, struggling chocolate company, it brings together nervous new employee Angélique (Isabelle Carré) and her uptight but vulnerable boss Jean-René (Benoît Poelvoorde). Both are normal looking, and aged around 40. That might sound unremarkable, but every time I watch a French film, I find myself giving thanks for the relative absence of Botoxed foreheads and collagen-thick lips, and the presence of female characters above the age of 30 who aren't playing someone's mother.
The comedy is light, with more than a touch of the whimsical about it, and my partner and I left the cinema smiling. One to cheer up a grey winter's day.
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