‘Two Tickets To Greece’ Review: A Heartfelt but Undemanding French Comedy
variety.comCatherine Bray Sun! Sea! Men! Margaritas! The siren song of this holy quartet is all that is required to tempt free-spirited hot mess Magalie (“Call My Agent” star Laure Calamy) to pack her bags and join her estranged former schoolfriend Blandine (Olivia Côte) on the holiday of a lifetime.
The invitation has come courtesy of Blandine’s teenaged son Benjamin (Alexandre Desrousseaux), who believes, with good reason, that his recently divorced mother is in danger of becoming a recluse — and she wasn’t exactly the life and soul of the party to begin with.
The stage is set for a pleasant if meandering comedy-drama powered by the personality clash at its core. “Two Tickets to Greece” opens with a prologue establishing the contrast between these two women as teenagers, and it’s perhaps not strictly required, since this dynamic is telegraphed loud and clear in every glance, line and scene in the movie.
But it is necessary to make sense of the film’s best scene, which flirts briefly with a less realist mode of filmmaking. As the scene in question begins, the hapless pair have ended up in a low-key bar full of old archaeologists.
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