Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson...
Broadly speaking, Not Here to Be Loved is a romantic comedy, though the romance is tortuous and the comedy tentative.
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Anthony Quinn
RTIndependent (UK)Jun 8, 2007
The only film worth seeing this week is Not Here To Be Loved, a modest French comedy that has more expressive subtlety and romance in it than Soderbergh and co will ever manage, even unto Ocean's Umpteen.
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Tom Dawson
RTBBC.comJun 8, 2007
Although the prevailing mood is melancholic, there's also a welcome vein of dry humour at work here
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Anton Bitel
RTFilm4Jun 8, 2007
The small scale of this melancholic romantic comedy is offset by its big themes. Bleak, well observed and dryly funny.