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Chinese Puzzle (French: Casse-tête chinois) is a 2013 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Cédric Klapisch. It is the third chapter of the Spanish Apartment trilogy, after L'Auberge Espagnole (2002) and Les Poupées russes (Russian Dolls, 2005).

Casse-tête chinois
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Directed by	Cédric Klapisch
Written by	Cédric Klapisch
Produced by	Bruno Levy Buzz Koenig
Starring	Romain Duris Audrey Tautou Cécile de France Kelly Reilly
Cinematography	Natasha Braier
Edited by	Anne-Sophie Bion
Music by	Christophe Minck Kraked Unit
Distributed by	StudioCanal
Release date	16 October 2013 (2013-10-16)
Running time	117 minutes
Country	France
Languages	French English
Budget	€17.3 million[1]
Box office	$17 million[2]

Plot

Ten years have passed, and the once happy lovers, Xavier Rousseau (Romain Duris) and Wendy (Kelly Reilly), have split. When she moves with their two children to New York City, he also moves there to be near the children. Wendy now lives with John (Peter Hermann) in a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park. Xavier initially stays with Isabelle (Cécile de France) and Ju (Sandrine Holt), a lesbian couple whose child he fathered, but he soon finds his own apartment above a Chinese bakery where he works on a new novel assisted by brief visions of Arthur Schopenhauer and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Having no work visa, Xavier is advised by his lawyer (Jason Kravits) to seek illegal employment and marry for a green card. After saving his taxicab driver from a vicious beating, the driver's grateful Chinese-American family agrees to have Xavier marry one of their relations, Nancy (Li Jun Li), who is amenable and complicit.

His former French girlfriend, Martine (Audrey Tautou), visits him while on a business trip and returns a second time with her own two children on spring break. Xavier and Martine briefly attempt to rekindle their relationship.

The film climaxes when the Immigration and Naturalization Service performs a surprise inspection of Xavier's apartment while Isabelle is using it to cheat on Ju with their babysitter (Flore Bonaventura). Later as Martine is departing for home with her kids, Xavier races on foot to catch her shuttle bus, confess his love, and ask her to stay and live with him. She agrees.

The film concludes with the cast of characters walking in a celebratory parade down a Chinatown street.

Cast

• Romain Duris as Xavier Rousseau
• Kelly Reilly as Wendy
• Audrey Tautou as Martine
• Cécile de France as Isabelle
• Sandrine Holt as Ju
• Flore Bonaventura as Isabelle the babysitter
• Jochen Hägele as Hegel
• Benoît Jacquot as Xavier's father
• Martine Demaret as Xavier's mother
• Dominique Besnehard as the editor
• Zinedine Soualem as Mr. Boubaker
• Peter Hermann as John
• Jason Kravits as Xavier's lawyer
• Vanessa Guide as the nurse
• Kyan Khojandi as Antoine Garceau
• Li Jun Li as Nancy
• Pablo Mugnier-Jacob as Tom
• Margaux Mansart as Mia
• Adrian Martinez as Le patron coursier
• Peter McRobbie as L'agent bureau immigration
• Larry Fessenden as Le premier rocker

Reception and awards

The film garnered favourable reviews. It scored a 78% 'certified fresh' rating on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 64 reviews, with a weighted average of 6.52/10. The site's consensus states: "Pleasantly easygoing and consistently funny, Chinese Puzzle offers a suitably endearing conclusion to Cédric Klapisch's Trilogy of Xavier."[3] At Metacritic, it has a score of 64 which is based on 24 critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".[4] The film was nominated for the Best Music award at the 39th César Awards,[5] and came second for the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival.

References

External links

• Chinese Puzzle at IMDb
• Chinese Puzzle at Box Office Mojo
• Chinese Puzzle at Rotten Tomatoes
• Chinese Puzzle at Metacritic
• Official US trailer (Cohen Media Group)
• Official US site (Cohen Media Group)

На других языках

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- [en] Chinese Puzzle

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[ru] Китайская головоломка

«Китайская головоломка» (фр. Casse-tête chinois) — французская комедийная мелодрама режиссёра, сценариста и продюсера Седрика Клапиша, вышедшая в 2013 году. Впервые фильм показали 23 августа 2013 года во Франции на Кинофестивале франкофонии в Ангулеме.

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