The Guardian's review: "Fanny (Lou de Laâge), we’re told, was once a high-school bohemian. Now she’s wed to the odious Jean (Melvil Poupaud), a self-made millionaire whose chief passion is the train-set which occupies an entire room of their palatial home. She spends her time in posh auction rooms, attending cocktail receptions or hunting deer from the couple’s bucolic weekend retreat. Now, thanks to her dalliance with Alain (Niels Schneider), Fanny reconnects with a different (and woozily romanticised) side of Paris and starts browsing in second-hand bookshops and strolling through leaf-blown city parks. “My life would be so different if I hadn’t bumped into you on the street,” she declares. Inevitably, though, luck is not on their side. Boiling over with suspicion, Jean has already hired a private detective to trail his wife around town and it is at this point that the melancholic Coup de Chance prepares to jump the points and embark on a different, rather darker track."

 

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An American apocalyptic, political, satire, black comedy film. A doctoral candidate in astromony discovers and unknown comet. Her professor confirms that it will collide with Earth in approximately six months and is large enough to cause a global extinction event. They present their findings to the White House, but are met with apathy from the President. World opinion is divided among people who believe the comet is a severe threat, those who decry alarmism, and those who deny that the comet even exists. The story expands from there.

It received four Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture), four Golden Globe Award nominations (including Best Picture - Musical or Comedy), six Critics' Choice Award nominations, (including Best Picture), and also won Best Original Screenplay at the 74th Writers Guild of America Awards.

Director/Writer: Adam McKay

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothee Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Himesh Patel, Melanie Lynskey, Cate Blanchett, Merly Streep

Time: 138 minutes