The defence The Sentimental Softie
“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.
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Heartbreaker
Romance · Comedy · 2010
Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
Movie details
Heartbreaker
“He's broken every heart except his own… until now.”
2010 Romance · Comedy 1h 45m
Critical arithmetic
The consensus, allegedly.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
IMDb
6.7 / 10
28.7K votes
Rotten Tomatoes
68 %
Tomatometer
Metacritic
59 / 100
Metascore
TMDB
6.6 / 10
Community rating
External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.
Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over Heartbreaker?
For the defence
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Pascal Chaumeil
Written by
Laurent Zeitoun · Jeremy Doner · Yohan Gromb
Romain Duris
Alex Lippi
Vanessa Paradis
Juliette Van Der Beck
Julie Ferrier
Mélanie
François Damiens
Marc
Andrew Lincoln
Jonathan Alcott
Héléna Noguerra
Sophie
Jacques Frantz
Van Der Beck
Court is in session
Put Heartbreaker on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Cool Ironist
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.