The film may make you wonder how much Gus Van Sant was thinking about Vagabond when he made Last Days.
What Let It Rain illuminates best are the little pleasures and discomforts of middle-class life.
The film never leaves France, but it’s implicitly global.
Agnès Jaoui’s Let It Rain is the kind of film it’s hard not to be snotty about.
If you spend an entire career chronicling power relationships among the incurably self-absorbed, is that not in itself a form of self-absorption?
A student of Patrice Chéreau and Éric Rohmer, Agnès Joui sees the humanity in everyone.