Wendy Ide 

It’s Raining Men review – not even Laure Calamy can carry off this French sex comedy

The Call My Agent! star plays a dentist trying to inject some excitement into her dismal love life in Caroline Vignal’s frisky romp
  
  

Laure Calamy as a dentist having her photo taken by a colleague on a phone
All smiles… Laure Calamy in It’s Raining Men. Photograph: Julien Panie

Iris (Laure Calamy) has a successful practice as a dentist, an enviable Paris apartment, two bright, beautiful daughters and a handsome, hard-working husband. Unfortunately, what she doesn’t have is a fulfilling sex life. So she takes to the apps in search of casual flings and validation. And that’s about it, as far as the story goes, in a film that feels like the giggly, coquettish little sister to Babygirl’s BDSM power-playing vamp. The usually excellent Calamy (Call My Agent!) struggles with a character who is neither as funny nor as insightful as the film-makers intend her to be; the jolly, twinkling score is the musical equivalent of a saucy seaside postcard.

  • In UK and Irish cinemas

Watch a trailer for It’s Raining Men.
 

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