LOLO (Julie Delpy). 99 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (June 3). Rating: NN
Julie Delpy’s infinite charms in front of the camera can’t make up for some of her poor choices behind it.
She co-wrote and directed this slap-stick comedy in which she plays Violette, a divorced mother whose adult son (Vincent Lacoste) has some severe Oedipal issues and a habit of sabotaging her love life.
New beau Jean-René (Dany Boon) doesn’t know he’s walking into a series of increasingly preposterous booby traps involving itching powder, tranquilizers, prostitutes and cyber-terrorism.
Some witty one-liners hit the mark, but for the most part Delpy settles for translating lowbrow Hollywood hijinks into French. The result is sexier than your average Adam Sandler affair, but not much funnier.