Our selection of 3 films

2. “Bridget Jones: Folle from him”, by Michael Morris

by Michael Morris
Romantic comedy, 2 h 10. In theaters.

In 2001, The Bridget Jones newspaper, adapted from Helen Fielding’s novel, revisited Pride and prejudices by Jane Austen and hit the bull’s eye. Was the Londonian thirty-year-old London falling out from the seducer Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) or the honest Mark Darcy (Colin Firth)? Then the following flaps, less removed, had tired …

Here is Bridget, 52 and mom. Her husband, Mark, has died and has to move forward. Supported by her friends and ex-friend Daniel, the petulant widow discovers meeting applications …

This fourth episode reconnects with the outspokenness of the heroine while taking note of the upheavals generated by #MeToo. And reserves touching scenes. For example, when the journalist who came to present her profession to her son’s class interviews the biology teacher and insists on making him say that the soul survives the body …

A good time, like when you find an always girlfriend.

Faustine Prévot

Our opinion: Pp