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GOD IS GREAT, I'M NOT Send This Review to a Friend
The intention may be great, the film isn't. "God is Great, I'm Not," directed by Pascale Bailly, who wrote it with Alain Tasma, has a bad case of the cutes. And who's the actress you cast these days when you want cute? It is Audrey Tautou, who hit it big with 'Amélie." There are those trademark saucer eyes and her vaunted effervescence. But the plot line is very thin, amusing once in a while, but more often ditsy.
Michèle (Tautou) is trying to find herself, and she thinks latching on to a religion will be the cure all to a good life. So she is experimenting, and at one point, after thinking about Buddha, she decides to be Jewish, which is the religion of her boyfriend François (Edouard Baer), except that he isn't really religious and he finds her gung-ho Judaism a bore and rather silly.
Her sudden infatuation with the rituals provide some funny moments, but there's really not enough here to keep the film afloat with any degree of interest. After a while Michèle gets to be somewhat of a pain. Of course, I found that eventually in the case of "Amélie" as well, although I do like Tautou, as I did especially in "Venus Beauty Institute." An Empire Pictures release.
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