Les Poupées Russes / Russian Dolls (2005 Cédric Klapisch & scr)

Truffaut would have loved this. Further adventures of some of the characters from L'Auberge Español in Paris, London and St Petersburg. Lively, inventive writing and filming. Also contains some of those collage montages where the screen is filled with slightly different images. In later life Klapisch would grow out of this sort of thing, but it's fun.

Romain Duris' character is a liar and an idiot, but starts to grow some balls. Gorgeous acting again. With Audrey Tautou, Kelly Reilly, Cécile de France, Kevin Bishop, Evguenta Obraztsova, Irene Montalã, Gary Love, Lucy Gordon, Aïssa Maïga, Pierre Gérald (grand-father).

Photographed by Domonique Colin, music by  Loïk Dury & Laurent Levesque, editing by Francine Sanberg.

Klapisch is just the kind of warm, human, funny, touching, episodic, inventive writer we really dig.