# Help me ID this French-language movie
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-french-language-movie/779768
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 13, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-french-language-movie/779768 "2017-02-13T18:28:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-french-language-movie/779768/1 "2017-02-13T18:28:30Z")
I watched it in late 2010 on pay per view (in the U.S.) with my then-girlfriend, who was French. She of course understood the dialog, I read the subtitles.
I recall it as sort of a French version of “The Big Chill” - a group of friends sharing the changes going on in their lives. They are already in regular contact with each other (unlike in “The Big Chill”, where a funeral brought old college pals together).
In the final scenes, everyone’s problems seemed to resolve, or at least reach a steady state. One of the characters was a single, career-focused woman of 40 who found herself pregnant after a brief affair, and was unexpectedly delighted. She may have been a lawyer, but I may be conflating her with the Mary Kay Place character in “The Big Chill” (a single fortyish lawyer who _deliberately_ got pregnant by Kevin Kline’s character).
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### Author:  [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-french-language-movie/779768/2 "2017-02-13T18:36:20Z")
Googling “french big chill” returns [Little White Lies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_White_Lies_(2010_film)), which is a 2010 French film.
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### Author:  [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-french-language-movie/779768/3 "2017-02-13T21:14:33Z")
Wow, that was quick. Thanks.
I guess I didn’t assume that my impression of it resembling “The Big Chill” would have been shared by others. But it apparently was, to include Roger Ebert.
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### Author:  [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-french-language-movie/779768/4 "2017-02-14T02:41:40Z")
Mary Kay Place’s character was 35, not fortyish.
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### Author:  [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-french-language-movie/779768/5 "2017-02-14T13:40:44Z")
Wow, starring two unknown (in America at the time) future Oscar winners, Marion Cotillard and Jean Dujardin. I’d like to see it.
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### Author:  [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-french-language-movie/779768/6 "2017-02-14T14:41:59Z")
Marion Cotillard was certainly well-known when _Little White Lies_ came out in 2010, since she won the Oscar for best actress for a 2007 film.