Review by The New York Times

The personal is political in the films of Agnès Jaoui, a sort of Gallic Woody Allen whose comedies of manners reveal a sensibility acutely attuned to the tiniest nuances of the mind games people play. Ms. Jaoui’s films may lack Mr. Allen’s comic shtick, quotable one-liners and showy metaphysical angst, but they are precisely calibrated dissections of the pretensions and insecurities of the French chattering class. As critical as she can be of her characters, Ms. Jaoui portrays them with the evenhanded sympathy of a wise therapist who likes her clients despite their annoying foibles.

The low-level politicians and media types who inhabit “Let It Rain,” her third film as a director (she has acted in many others), are too busy pursuing their personal agendas to sit back and despair about the human condition. Almost all them feel victimized in one way or another. That includes the protagonist, Agathe Villanova, a self-confident feminist writer (played by Ms. Jaoui with just the right edge of impatience) making the leap into politics.

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Review by Entertainment Weekly

This rapier-sharp comedy of social manners from French auteur Agnès Jaoui (The Taste of Others) stars Jaoui as an overbearing feminist writer angling for a political career. Jaoui’s longtime collaborator, Jean-Pierre Bacri, plays a self-aggrandizing documentarian eager to interview her at her childhood home.

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