Barbecue is a 2014 French ensemble comedy film directed by Éric Lavaine.

Barbecue
Theatrical release poster
Directed byÉric Lavaine
Written byÉric Lavaine
Héctor Cabello Reyes
Produced byFrançois Cornuau
Vincent Roget
Olivier Courson
Starring
CinematographyFrançois Hernandez
Edited byVincent Zuffranieri
Production
companies
Same Player
Canal+
TF1
Distributed byStudioCanal
Release date
  • 30 April 2014 (2014-04-30)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$11.1 million [1]
Box office$14.5 million [2]

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Reception

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Mike McCahill of The Guardian called Barbecue a "boringly white-bread with no cinematic ambition".[3]

While attending Beijing International Film Festival, Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter had this to say about the film: "[A] half-baked comedy-drama about a group of bourgeois friends who have to confront the pitfalls of middle age".[4]

Representing The New York Times, Nicolas Rapold called the film "[a] kind of utterly unremarkable local product", but added that "its loosely written story doubles as a smirk-inducing glimpse at what feel like very Gallic life challenges".[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Barbecue (2014)- JPBox-Office". Jobox-office.com. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Barbecue". Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  3. ^ McCahill, Mike (18 September 2014). "Barbecue review – boringly white-bread with no cinematic ambition". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  4. ^ Tsui, Clarence (21 April 2014). "Barbecue: Beijing Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  5. ^ Rapold, Nicolas (25 December 2014). "Married and on the Make, Even After a Heart Attack". The New York Times. p. 20.
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