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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Peter Bradshaw

It’s Raining Men review – Laure Calamy adultery comedy puts the heat in cheat

Laure Calamy in It's Raining Men.  © JULIEN PANIE/CHAPKA FILMS/LA FILMERIE/FRANCE 3 CINEMA
Star quality … Laure Calamy in It's Raining Men. Photograph: © Julien Panie/Chapka Films/La Filmerie/France 3 Cinema

The star quality of Laure Calamy has been an open secret since the runaway success of the French TV comedy Dix Pour Cent, bought by Netflix and renamed Call My Agent!, in which she played Noémie, the ditsy assistant to the head of a talent agency. Since then she has appeared in a number of sugary French films of which, sadly, this is another, but her distinctive style and light comic touch elevates it a little.

Calamy is Iris, a dentist married to handsome Stéphane (Vincent Elbaz), with two teen daughters, living in a stylish Paris apartment. But their relationship is now sexless and Iris experiences a midlife crisis, yearning for the sophisticated French sex-comedy equivalent of piña coladas and getting caught in the rain. So Iris downloads a dating app for married cheaters and embarks on a series of secret, lighthearted one-night stands.

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