Two Tickets to Greece

What elevates this film above the usual trip-gone-wrong storyline is its gentle exploration of what links the two women beyond their history.

This “Trip to Greece” isn’t an epic journey, and that includes the familiar emotional ground the characters have to cover. But the leads click, the scenery is fab and there are just enough chuckles, sweet laughs and grimaces to make it worth 100 minutes of our time in the sundrenched birthplace of Western Civilization.

Olivia Côte and Laure Calamy make the film worth watching if you are in the mood for a story about an awkward but enduring friendship.

The film can never quite decide to what extent it wants to be either a light-hearted raunchy comedy or a darker comedic assessment of contemporary life.

The character of Magalie is so enraging that you would chuck yourself into the Aegean Sea rather than spend two weeks in her company.

Calamy has by far the livelier part, and the energy dissipates whenever Magalie isn’t drawing attention to herself.

Calamy gives it everything she’s got but this film is fundamentally heavy-handed.