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NATE BLOOM
COLUMNIST

AT THE MOVIES

Opening May 4: I was hoping that the
new French language film Godard Mon
Amour would be a charming period com-
edy. The director, Michel Hazanavicius,
51, showed he could do light comedy
with The Artist (2011), a silent pic that
won the best picture Oscar. The basis
of his new film, Godard Mon Amour,
are memoirs written by the late Anne
Wiazemsky, who was 19 years old when
she married famous French movie direc-
tor Jean Luc Godard, then 37, in 1967.
The film covers one year (1967-68). We
see Godard trying to incorporate the bur-
geoning radical political movements of
the late ’60s into his filmmaking. Godard
also touches on how contemporary cul-
tural changes influenced the dynamics of
the couple’s marriage. Most reviews said
the premise was not at fault — a smart
comedy of manners could have been
fashioned out of this material. However,
leading critics say that the script and
the direction miss the mark and the
film just doesn’t work as a bio or as a
comedy. Hazanavicius is the grandson of
Lithuanian Jews who settled in France.
His parents, children during the Nazi
occupation, survived in hiding.
However, advance reviews are pretty
good for Tully, a comedy/drama directed
by Jason Reitman, 40. The Tully script
is by Diablo Cody, who also wrote the
acclaimed 2007 film Juno — which
Reitman also directed. Charlize Theron
plays Margo, a harried mother of three,
including a newborn, who is “gifted” a
night nanny by her wealthy brother (Mark
Duplass). Hesitant at first to accept his
extravagance, Margo comes to form a
unique bond with her young nanny. More
than a nanny, she is the confidante and
friend that Margo needed (her husband
is a largely absent jerk). Reviews say the
early scenes focusing on Margo’s prob-
lems are perhaps too grim, but the film
takes off with the nanny’s arrival.
Reitman is the son of famous director
Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters), 71, and his
wife, French Canadian actress Genévieve
Robert, a Jew by choice. Ivan’s parents
were Holocaust survivors.

STREAMING

Now streaming is Honeymoon Tour, a
Netflix special that stars husband-and-
wife stand-up comedians Natasha
Leggero, 44, and Moshe Kasher, 38.
It’s divided into three, 30-minute parts.
Leggero does stand-up alone; Kasher
does stand-up alone; and then they
amusingly counsel audience couples
together. Leggero was about five months
pregnant during filming (she gave birth

Michel Hazanavicius

Ivan and Jason Reitman

Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher

Lauren Miller Rogen and Seth Rogen

to a girl in February) and much of their
stand-up schtick relates to the preg-
nancy. Leggero and Kasher also talk a lot
about her conversion to Judaism, includ-
ing the 14, four-hour conversion classes
that they attended together. Be warned:
There is a lot of bawdy or edgy humor.
Also now streaming on Netflix is Seth
Rogen’s Hilarity for Charity. Rogen’s
one-hour special combines sketches,
stand-up and music. The intent of the
special is to raise money for Alzheimer’s
research. The big cast includes Nick
Kroll, Sarah Silverman, Jeff Goldblum,
Ike Barinholtz, Sacha Baron Cohen and
Rogen’s wife, Lauren Miller Rogen, 35
— her mother, now 67, was diagnosed
with Alzheimer’s at age 55. •