A question: If you spend an entire career chronicling power relationships among the incurably self-absorbed, is that not in itself a form of self-absorption? Forgive me for conflating writer-director Agnes Jaoui with the characters she plays, but anyone seeking to escape the "bourgeois snob" label shouldn't play a bourgeois snob in every one of her films. Let It Rain is certainly no departure for Jaoui and company; it's another less-than-caustic battle of the sexes set among the comfortable and brilliant, with plenty of verbal jousting but little political frisson. Even when Jaoui and co-star Jean-Pierre Bacri's script hits upon the evergreen conversational lightning rods of gender and class inequality, its characters end up sounding frivolous.  Akiva Gottlieb