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CAST & CREW
Audrey Tautou, Edouard Baer, Julie Depardieu
Directed by Pascale Bailly
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SYNOPSIS
Michelle (Audrey Tautou) is a 20-year-old tornado. With a bouncing, perfectly round Afro and a job posing for fashion photographs, she boldly describes herself a "top model," though her miniature physical size and girlish grin reveals her subdued, searching interior. more...
MPAA RATING
Not Rated
RUNTIME
1 hour, 40 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Nov 8, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Empire Pictures
GENRE
Foreign Films, French, Young Love, Relationships, Buddhism, Models
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TRAILER & MEDIA
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
FORUM
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 "Just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its target audience."
-- Doris Toumarkine, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"An incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people...manages to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle vague without any of its sense of fun or energy."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
 "Audrey Tatou has a knack for picking roles that magnify her outrageous charm, and in this literate French comedy, she's as morning-glory exuberant as she was in Amélie."
-- Kate Sullivan, L.A. WEEKLY
"With youthful high spirits, Tautou remains captivating throughout Michele's religious and romantic quests, and she is backed by a likable cast."
-- Ed Scheid, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"displays the potential for a better movie than what Bailly manages to deliver"
-- Arthur Lazere, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"I was trying to decide what annoyed me most about God is Great... I'm Not, and then I realized that I just didn't care."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"A light-hearted French film about the spiritual quest of a fashion model seeking peace of mind while in a love affair with a veterinarian who is a non-practicing Jew."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
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ROTTEN 10%
Avg. Rating: 4.3/10 |
"Although God Is Great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage, it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film."
-- Matt Weitz, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Simplistic fluff-ball of whimsy."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
"This off-putting French romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fans of Amélie."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"How much you are moved by the emotional tumult of [François and Michèle's] relationship depends a lot on how interesting and likable you find them."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"We never truly come to care about the main characters and whether or not they'll wind up together, and Michele's spiritual quest is neither amusing nor dramatic enough to sustain interest."
-- Frank Scheck, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"I am convinced [Tautou] can do anything, and I recommend the movie almost solely because of her."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"Too infuriatingly quirky and taken with its own style."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"The film is a confusing melange of tones and styles, one moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama."
-- Colin Covert, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
"A movie in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance you can't wait to see end."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"Pascale Bailly's rom-com provides Amélie's Audrey Tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i.e., a banal spiritual quest."
-- Melissa Anderson, VILLAGE VOICE
-- Click to read the article.
-- HOUSTON CHRONICLE
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