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All About Them: decision through desire.

All About Them · 2015

A source-led reading of All About Them as comedy: desire, decision, documented consensus, and the counterpoint that shifts the conclusion.

THE FILM EDITORIAL DESKAugust 31, 2026312 WORDS
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THEMATIC CENTER

desire
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NARRATIVE PRESSURE

decision
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FORM

comedy
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RECORD ANCHORS

mélodie · charlotte · micha

The record for All About Them yields three coordinates specific to its premise—mélodie, charlotte, and micha. That vocabulary places desire at the center and gives decision its dominant tension. It establishes a documentary baseline, not a borrowed score; criticism must still ask what the form does with that material.

All About Them brings desire into contact with decision through comedy. That intersection is our Fresh Take: judge the premise less by its familiarity than by how precisely that combination makes its conflict legible. The existing editorial note adds this view: A lively, generous comedy whose sharp timing and joy in performance deserve a big-screen audience.

All About Them (2015) arrives with the coordinates of a comédie film situated in 2010s cinema. The record credits Jérôme Bonnell with the direction and places Anaïs Demoustier and Félix Moati in the foreground. With a contained running time, the useful question is not to invent an invisible intention, but to notice how these documented choices shape audience expectations before the first frame.

Read as comedy, the film carries the pressure of decision. Desire matters less as a promise of fulfilment than as a disruptive force exposing the compromises that had held until now. The most precise critical test is therefore how one choice alters every option that follows. The comedy label promises pleasure, but it also opens a social laboratory. Who controls the rhythm, who becomes the object of the joke, and who recovers dignity offer a more durable reading than a simple gag count.

The counterpoint asks whether the object of desire is truly another person, or the possibility of another self. Instead of asking whether the film confirms the expected story of desire, the sharper question is whether it changes the person, place, or institution with the power to define it. The twist is relational: timing matters because it quietly redistributes authority between characters.

THE VERDICT, REFRAMED

Our angle: the best joke may be the one that quietly changes a human relationship. Here, desire changes meaning under the pressure of decision.

THE DOCUMENTARY STARTING POINT

Charlotte is cheating on Micha with Mélodie. Not suspecting a thing, yet feeling neglected, Micha in turn cheats on Charlotte. But also with Mélodie. For Mélodie, things are topsy-turvy. She lies to both of them. She is privy to each of their lies. And is in love with both of them at the same time.

Original review by The Film Editorial Desk. No audience testimony or independent critic identity is fabricated.
Year
2015
Runtime
86 min
Direction
Jérôme Bonnell
Performers
Anaïs Demoustier · Félix Moati · Sophie Verbeeck · Patrick d'Assumçao · Laure Calamy · Olivier Broche · Hannelore Cayre · Claire Magnin