Have you ever seen a foreign movie that everyone is talking about, on how great it is; but, when you go to see it you think how it was awful? You tell others this and they tell you, “Oh, you just didn’t get it.” If they really want to insult you they can go on to mention how you’re not sophisticated enough to appreciate it. What you don’t know is how the person who is saying all this to you also felt the movie in question was terrible. They’re just too embarrassed to admit it. People tend to think that just because a movie came from a foreign country and one critic said it is good, then it must be good and if they don’t feel that way then there is something wrong with them. So they lie and say how they liked it too. “Mademoiselle Chambon” hails from France and it is not the least bit embarrassing to report it is a complete bore.
Vincent Lindon is Jean, a husband and father of one. When his wife hurts her back, Jean must be the one who picks his son up at school. He meets Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain); his son’s teacher who asks him to speak to the class about his construction job. She asks him if he can look at a broken window at her apartment and when he goes to fix it there is a moment of indiscretion and the two shares a kiss and hold each other for a moment.
