‘Jim’s Story’ Review: An Impassive Protagonist Weighs Down the Larrieu Brothers’ Sentimental French Melodrama
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variety.comManuel Betancourt Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s latest film, “Jim’s Story,” doesn’t follow a Jim, but Aymeric (Karim Leklou).
Rather, it is in following Aymeric’s story that the story of Jim unfolds. Which is to say, neither in title nor in its narrative structure does this French drama let its protagonist lead.
This adaptation of Pierric Bailly’s novel of the same name (“Le Roman de Jim”) presents Aymeric as a rather inert character to whom events happen.
His constant inaction repeatedly emotionally neuters this decades-spanning father-son melodrama, with a distancing effect that keeps its character at an unwelcome remove.
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