Change of Plans (Le code a changé)

By the time this lightly entertaining look at life's emotional crises ends, even the characters you didn't think were sympathetic will have won you over.

Change of Plans may not be earth-shattering cinema, but it's masterfully structured and edited (by Sylvie Landra) with a first-rate cast.

Thompson's cast is too large for her to make the best use of her ingenious story-structure.

The next time you're invited to a French dinner party, you might want to give it a pass, if the tedious proceedings in Change of Plans are any indication.

The acting by Seigner, Marina Hands, Karin Viard, Patrick Bruel and other French notables is first-rate, although their characters and what they have to say are trite.

A comedy of manners in need of Ritalin.

At the very least, this mush pot reminds us that countries other than ours also produce melodramatic mediocrities.