Populaire (2012)

Give a roomful of monkeys typewriters and enough time and they’ll eventually
re-create the entire works of Shakespeare. With provided text and a punishing time limit, the typing contests in director Régis Roinsard’s debut feature Populairehave less lofty ambitions. Good thing they’re the red herring — in glorious Technicolor — in this French romance that seems to owe more to the melancholy output of Douglas Sirk than any madcap battle of the sexes in any Doris Day/Rock Hudson confection. Read the full review here.