“A missing part” with Romain Duris, not jojo le taxi – Libération

Guillaume Senez films Romain Duris as a new dad in crisis as in Our Battles : this time, here he is in the rather improbable role of a taxi driver in Tokyo, forced into exile for years in the hope of finding his daughter, kidnapped by her Japanese mother during their separation. Duris, an unequal actor capable of the best and the worst, here does not seem to fully understand the issues of his presence on board, and carries his guy's face at the end of his rope from one end to the other of his night shifts when suddenly, the day before his return to France, poof, his daughter enters the taxi.

A sort of poorly constructed film file then begins, where the director seeks to make us understand the legal ins and outs of the grotesque situation in which the father finds himself, adding to him a comrade in misfortune with a mechanical and clumsy characterization. – Judith Chemla, again in a pathetic register which does not do justice to her talent. The most interesting aspect of this story, namely how the relationship will develop between this man and this young girl who no longer know each other, is reduced to a few tear-jerking scenes throughout. passenger compartment (way Drive My Car of the poor), to the point that it is difficult to understand what motivated the desire to make this film (rather than a podcast on the subject). There remains the beautiful presence of the young Mei Cirne-Masuki, who manages to infuse a little mystery into the whole.

A missing part by Guillaume Senez, with Romain Duris, Judith Chemla, Mei Cirne-Masuki, 1h38.