Barbecue (film)

Barbecue is a 2014 French ensemble comedy film directed by Éric Lavaine.

Cast

 * Lambert Wilson as Antoine Chevalier
 * Franck Dubosc as Baptiste
 * Florence Foresti as Olivia
 * Guillaume de Tonquédec as Yves
 * Lionel Abelanski as Laurent
 * Jérôme Commandeur as Jean-Mich'
 * Sophie Duez as Véronique Chevalier
 * Lysiane Meis as Laure
 * Valérie Crouzet as Nathalie
 * Lucas Lavaine as Guillaume
 * Corentin Lavaine as Hugo
 * Stéphane De Groodt as Alexandre
 * Philippe Laudenbach as Jean Chevalier
 * Julie Engelbrecht as The pretty blonde

Reception
Mike McCahill of The Guardian called Barbecue a "boringly white-bread with no cinematic ambition".

While attending Beijing International Film Festival, Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter had this to say about the film: "[A] half-baked comedy-drama about a group of bourgeois friends who have to confront the pitfalls of middle age".

Representing The New York Times, Nicolas Rapold called the film "[a] kind of utterly unremarkable local product", but added that "its loosely written story doubles as a smirk-inducing glimpse at what feel like very Gallic life challenges".